Topic: Deep dive into fully free-form RPG
| Date: | Tuesday, February 19th | |
| Time: | 5:30 (Deli snack) – 6:00 (Meeting) | |
| Speaker: | Barbara Morris | |
| Location: | Cooper Standard 2110 Executive Hills Court Auburn Hills, Michigan, 48326 (map) Use the front entrance. |
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| Presentation: | Deep Dive Free Form |
Learn all about free-form H, F, D and P specs in RPG
- The new syntax for your H spec options, and for defining files, data, and procedures
- How some of the new features will help you write more robust code
- The gotchas that experienced RPG programmers might run into at first
- How **FREE lets you to start coding in column 1 and lets you have lines as long as you want
About the Presenter
Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta.
The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT and DATA-INTO operation codes for ILE RPG. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for ILE RPG include subprocedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.