Thanks for your response Dave
From all the responses I have received - it looks like I need to create an external file
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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 10:45 AM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: free form and o specs
"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/25/2019
09:33:32 AM:
The report is not that involved, so I was thinking that all I need was
o specs, when it occurred to me that I was creating the program
totally in free form - but I could NOT remember reading about any
changes to o specs with free form Hence my question
The change was that O-specs were eliminated in fully free-form RPG (**free). Thus, you only have two choices in fully free-form RPG... An externally defined print file, or put the fixed-form O-specs in a copybook and /INCLUDE them. The compiler switches to **no-free during copybook inclusion.
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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