RPG

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RPG Acronym for report program generator. A programming language used in commercial data processing for extracting information from files. The input to an RPG consists of a description of the file structure, a specification of the information required, and of its layout on the page. From this information, the RPG constructs a program to read the file, extract the desired information, and format it in the required manner. The best-known example is RPG II.