Re: New Idea about Rpg program, copy members and RDI

I agree.  If it's local but used in more than one place, it can be a
service program outside of all other programs.

Seems like the bad habits of copying routines into every program like the
olden days.  But I could be misunderstanding.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM Charles Wilt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Why would you have functions in a /COPY member?
>
> I mean, I've seen it done by people that don't understand ILE in code I've
> inherited...
>
> But IMHO, it's a very bad practice.
>
> Charles
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM Marco Facchinetti <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Cross posted in Wdsc list.
> >
> > In an effort to reduce duplicate code between similar programs with
> > different purposes, we use copy members to contain the common parts.
> These
> > include definitions, but also routines and functions.
> > When editing copy members, the content assistant doesn't work because it
> > doesn't have the context. Hence the idea of being able to edit copy
> members
> > directly in the main source code:
> >
> > https://ibm-power-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-4740
> >
> > Best regards
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> > Marco Facchinetti
> >
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> >
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