New IBM idea - Named Parameters at Program and Procedure Calls

"Birgitta Hauser" <Hauser-bRAHsVz2yv4TVIZRl6KS/[email protected]> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:44:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
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I have added a new IBM idea, to allow specifying Parameter Names (and
assigning the parameter values) at program/procedure calls (in the same way
as you can do it with SQL Stored Procedures, UDFs and UDTFs)
https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4826

Please LIKE if you think it would be helpful/useful

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser
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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces-+hD5IHI5Xscn3HwCXmMcX9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> On Behalf Of Barbara
Morris
Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2026 18:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CCSID - RPG issues

On 2026-02-26 8:40 a.m., Birgitta Hauser wrote:
> SQL could always handle single byte and double byte character sets ... 
> and
> UTF-8 correctly. Transformation occurred automatically.
> The problem was always RPG because the data is converted into the Job
CCSID.
> BTW what is your Job CCSID? 65535?
> 

He has DATA(*NOCVT) for the file and CCSID(*EXACT) for the data structure,
so it should not be converting the data to the job CCSID. 
With DATA(*NOCVT), it should get the data correctly even if the job CCSID is
65535.

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Barbara

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