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  • Subject: Re: RPG enhancement suggestion
  • From: dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:46:16 GMT

Colin,

>There must be 1000's of RPG programs out there that use only very few
>fields from files, but read in every field on the file every time a
>record 
>is read

Au contraire.  The RPG compiler is smart enough to exclude
unreferenced fields unless you specifically ask for them by including
DEBUG(*YES)  or the RPG III equivalent (col 15 = '1').

Have you ever noticed that when you run STRDBG on a program you can't
necessarily display all the fields from an externally described file?
If the field isn't referenced, no memory is allocated and no move
operations are performed.  And you can't see it under STRDBG.  Unless
you code DEBUG(*YES) or '1' in column 15 in RPG III.

Doug
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