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

Agreed, seems.

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Il giorno mer 10 dic 2025 alle ore 17:49 Brad Stone <[email protected]> ha
scritto:

> 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
> > > --
> > > Marco Facchinetti
> > >
> > > Mr S.r.l.
> > >
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> > > Cel. 393 9620498
> > >
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