Re: Mixing **free, non **free source, and column specific RPGLE

Vern Hamberg via RPG400-L <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

 From both the ILE RPG Reference and Programmer's Guide is this statement -

Fixed-form code is not allowed in fully free-form source, but 
column-limited source which uses only
columns 6-80 can be included by using the /COPY or /INCLUDE directive.

I did not see anything about having **free in a copy member that is 
listed in free (not **free) or fixed format, I also haven't tried that.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:[email protected]> CAAC 
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023


On 1/27/2026 3:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> We have a number of copybooks (mostly D-Spec stuff) that are pulled into
> programs at compile time.  Some are **free format, some are regular free
> format (column 8), and some are old fashioned RPGLE (D in column 6).  I
> haven't seen any issues with these getting mixed together in a program.
> Apparently the compiler is smart enough to handle it but I thought I'd see
> if anyone knew of any issues or anything to be aware of.
>
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