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The function is already supported, so the RFE is not valid. We have opened an internal defect to keep track of the bug of the ruler line length which causing confusion.
The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a medium priority requirement that should be addressed.
Background: The CEAC members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
Although the theme of this request is consistent with our business strategy, it is not committed to the release that is currently under development.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for Power Systems
Component - RPG/COBOL Development Tools
Operating system - IBM i
Source - ISV (Independent Software Vendor)
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Languages - RPG
Operating system - IBM i
Source - ISV (Independent Software Vendor)
Thanks for the explanation.
I did not try it as I was mislead by the ruler line (ie. the ...+... line) which stops at position 80 when the cursor is on lines with embedded SQL. I now wrote SQL past column 80 and it saved and compiled fine on V7R3 and RDi 9.6.0.1.
This RFE should therefore be migrated to an RDi bug report.
Support already exists for unlimited line length for embedded SQL when the source begins with **FREE. See https://ibm.biz/rpgcafe_fullyfree_rpg for the PTF information for the SQL precompiler for 7.1 and 7.2.
(No PTFs are needed for 7.3.)
If you already have the required DB2 PTF group applied on your system, make sure you are not trying to compile with a target release lower than V7R1M0.
Please respond with information about the release and DB2 PTF group level for your system, and whether you are compiling with a target release greater than V6R1M0.
Paul, support already exists for unlimited line length for embedded SQL when the source begins with **FREE. See https://ibm.biz/rpgcafe_fullyfree_rpg for the PTF information for the SQL precompiler for 7.1 and 7.2.