Hi!

This is rather a nice-to-have than an actual issue, but it seems to be worth to mention it.
In our company, we currently modernize our ILE RPG software. Hence we go for free format. As far as I‘ve seen, we need to declare parameter types for iPgm with the classic format („10A“ instead of „char(10)“).
May it be possible to support free format syntax in iPgm functions as well?

If I got it correctly, this may also be something that needs to be changed in the XMLSERVICE layer (?)

This is just syntactic sugar. But in long term, it may be better maintainable to have the same syntax in both definitions.