Recent Additions to Modern RPG Language — Simon Hutchinson

Over the past ten years RPG has transformed itself into a modern free form language. In recent the recent releases, 7.4 and 7.5, there have been additions there have been enhancements made that have passed many people by. Simon will demonstrate his favorite additions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn Simon’s favorite additions to RPG, and the releases they can be used with

2. See exampes of each one.

Simon Hutchinson

RPGPGM.COM

Simon’s experience with IBM midrange started in the United Kingdom, in a pre-AS/400 world. Since immigrating to the USA he has worked mostly in the western half of the country, and is currently IT manager responsible for the Power servers and IBM i for a large bank in Central Texas.

Simon has been writing his acclaimed IBM i blog, RPGPGM.COM, for almost ten years sharing his knowledge, experience, and giving many detailed examples of the latest RPG, SQL, and CL. He was recognized by IBM as an IBM Champion for Power (2021,2022), and as an IBM i Community Advocate.

Since its founding, in 2020, Simon has been the president of the Central Texas IBM i User Group, CTXiUG.