Re: How big can a program be ??

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Landess wrote:
> ...
> Since the JDE shops I have worked in write code to stay consistent with the
> existing JDE RPG/400 code, I took a hybrid
> approach.  I wrote a compile command that allows you to maintain the code as
> RPG/400, but compiles it like this:
> 
> 1) It first uses CVTRPGPGM to convert the base source member from RPG/400 to
> RPGLE source type in a temporary source file.
> 
> 2) An RPG program reads thru the converted source in the temporary source
> file, looking for the source members named in the /COPY statements and
> converting _them_ to RPGLE source format in a temporary source file.
> 
> 3) Updates the /COPY statements in the source member created in (1) to point
> at the RPGLE  /COPY members in the temporary RPGLE source file for copy
> books.

Steve, you can skip steps 2 and 3 by specifying EXPCPY(*YES) on the
first CVTRPGSRC.