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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 14, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Relax requirements for /INCLUDE /IF /ENDIF in RPG IV

We still have to start the /xxxx directives (e.g., /IF, /INCLUDE, /ENDIF, /DEFINE in column 7 even in *FREE. Please eliminate this restriction and allow them to be speified in any column so long as all content before the /<whatever> is blank.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 19, 2024
    It is already supported to code a directive in any column starting in column 1 for **FREE source and starting in column 7 for column-limited source.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=concepts-compiler-directives

    -IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 19, 2024

    Okay. I tend to not use the **FREE directive. But do use free format keywords and that may be the column 7 issue. I will try to see if I can use them in 8, 9, 10... etc as well... thanks.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 18, 2024
    RPG already supports directives starting in any valid column. Please provide an example where the compiler gives an error when the directive does not start in column 7.

    In a **FREE module, directives can start in any column. For example, the following **FREE code compiles successfully. The /IF and /ENDIF start in column 1.

    **free
    /if defined(do_dsply)
    dsply 'hello';
    /endif
    return;

    In a column-limited module, directives can start in column 7 or any column after column 7 as long as the entire directive is complete within columns 7-80. For example, the following column-limited code compiles successfully. The /IF and /ENDIF start in column 14.

    /if defined(do_dsply)
    dsply 'hello';
    /endif

    return;

    -IBM Power Systems Development

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