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  3. January 2003

Re: What's with the RPG SQL Precompiler?

At 09:13 01/17/2003, Dan wrote:

Pete, I am very much a neophyte in SQL and SQLRPG.  But I thought I
heard someone mention that /INCLUDE is like a /COPY but has more SQL
precompiler functionality.  You probably already know about this, but
just in case.
I'm not sure if it's technically accurate, but conceptually, /INCLUDE is exactly like /COPY, except that it is ignored by the precompiler. It's a work-around that allows you to achieve the same functionality that you can get with nested /COPY statements, even though the SQL precompiler can't support them. You can use /INCLUDE in place of /COPY anywhere SQL doesn't need to know about it. In practice, it doesn't seem to have much impact on what you can do with RPG copybooks, although it does mean you some times need to make minor accommodations.


Pete Hall
pbhall@ameritech.net
http://www.pbhall.us/


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