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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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:

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.

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