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Benifit of ILE RPG IV(EPM RPG) and Drawbacks of OPM RPG

1 Not Case-sensitive - Upper case
2 Free format possible - No Free format
3 "D" specification introduced - "E" specification
4 Field names expanded to 14 character - 6 character
5 Size of the Character Field 32767 - 256 character
6 Decimal places for numeric expanded to 30 - 9
7 Data structure expanded to 32767 - 9999
8 Size of constants expanded to 1024 - 256
9 Factor1 and factor2 expanded to 14 character - 8
10 Opcode expanded to 10 characters - 6
11 Maximum No of File No LIMIT - 50
12 Maximum no of subroutines NO LIMIT - 256
13 No of Elements in array expanded to 32767 - 9999
14 File name length expanded to 10 - 8
15 Decrypt some existing opcode
16 ADD & SUBSTRACT Date and Time opcode available
17 Built in functions available
18 Two step compailation (Module & Bind to program) - One
step compailation (Program)
19 Dynamic EVAL opcode has been introduced
20 Concept of ACTIVATION GROUP

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