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Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 8, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

provide QSYSINC RPG includes in full free format

Today, we have QSYSINC RPG includes members in fixed format.

More and more applications are nowadays written using full free format. Even IBM has a strong focus on using this format.

Therefore, it would be consistent to have QSYSINC RPG includes members using full free format, so that they can be included into full free format sources. On top of that, there are also more and more considerations to use sources in IFS rather than in physical files members. So, at the same time, it would be nice to have them as IFS stream files. There is a /QIBM/include directory, but we can see only C files.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Jun 9, 2025
    The QSYSINC/QRPGLESRC includes can already be included in full free format code.

    A /COPY file has to have its own **FREE on the first line. Otherwise, it is assumed to be a column-limited file.

    It does not matter whether the file with the /COPY directive is fully-free or column-limited.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=statements-fully-free-form

    - IBM Power Systems Development
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