Fall 2024 TRs announced

The Fall Technology Refreshes for IBM i 7.5, TR5, and 7.4, TR11, were announced this morning.

Having a quick glance at the announcement documentation from IBM it would appear that the two have the identical changes:

• Db2 of i (SQL)
  • 14 enhancements
  • 9 new additions
• RPG
  • 3 new additions

You can read about these on the following pages on IBM's websites:

• IBM i 7.5 TR5
  • IBM announcement
  • IBM support wiki
  • RPG Cafe (as of time of publication this has not been updated)
• IBM i 7.4 TR11
  • IBM announcement
  • IBM support wiki
  • RPG Cafe (as of time of publication this has not been updated)

These documents do mention ACS 1.1.9.6, which was already released in August.

What has caught my eye in TRs:

• RPG
  • New BiFs %HIVAL and %LOVAL which return the highest and lowest possible value of the variable passed to it
  • The "Idea" I submitted for the %PROC BiF to be allowed in the ON-EXIT section of a procedure
• Db2 for i
  • New END_JOBS procedure that gives me a more granular way to end jobs
  • Change to SEND_EMAIL scalar function to allow for the content type of the message to be plain text, HTML, or XML
  • Column added to the MTI_INFO table function for the file member or table partition name

Planned availability date for most of the TR enhancements are November 22, 2024.

PTF number for the Db2 for i will be:

• IBM i 7.5 TR5:  SF99950 level 8
• IBM i 7.4 TR11:  SF99704 level 29

When I find more information about these TRs I will update this page.