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

I have done the function thing in copybooks when the function needs to adopt ALLOBJ authority.  If I put the function in a service program and the service program adopts ALLOBJ authority, anybody can bind to that service program and call the function with ALLOBJ authority.  Maybe there is a way for service programs to adopt the authority of the *PGM that is calling functions in it but I wasn't able to figure it out.

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From: RPG400-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2025 11:19 AM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New Idea about Rpg program, copy members and RDI

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
>
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