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On 6/27/2023 12:15 PM, tim ken wrote:
Is there any SQL query which could provide lines of code used inside all
the programs and all the associated modules used in the entire IBM i system?
What do these mean:
'provide lines of code'
'all the programs'
'all the associated modules'
'entire IBM i system'
The reasons that clarifications are needed:
Does 'provide' mean a count, a copy of each actual line, something else?
Does 'line of code' refer to source lines, compiled MI lines, something
else?
If source lines, how does one account for continuations, are they a
single line of code, multiple, something else?
It is very difficult to understand what value any of this might provide;
what question is being answered, what decisions will be made based upon
this information, what the actual business problem is.
Also in this SQL query can we know how many lines are commented and how
many lines are actual program and module code separately in different
columns against each program and it's associated module name ?
Again, clarification is needed. How do you want to treat right-hand
comments? As a commented line, as a line of code, something else?
Remember that a comment varies according to the programming language. A
comment in Cobol is different to a comment in RPG 3, RPG IV, CL, Python,
DDS... Our hypothetical SQL statement would need quite a few CASE
statements to pick these out. What about blank lines? Continuations of
comment lines?
If you are after a rough idea of the size of your application code, I
would use DSPFD to an OUTFILE() and query the number of members/records
in the source files found there.
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