Re: QSYSINC/QUSLFLD usage in RPG in V5R2

[Jonathan Mason <masonjo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Krish

How many of the QSYSINC copy members do you use?  If it's not too many I would 
create my own copy library, put the source member in it and remove the 
offending fields.  Of course any program you have that uses any offending copy 
memebr would need to be updated the next time you came to compile it.

The alternative is to comment out the fields within QSYSINC, but you would face 
the same problem the next time the OS gets upgraded.

All the best

Jonathan

-----Original message-----
From: Krish Thirumalai krishnithya@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:00:39 +0000
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: QSYSINC/QUSLFLD usage in RPG in V5R2

> We just recently upgraded our OS to V5R2 and we had a program that was
> using the QUSLFLD
> 
> D/COPY QSYSINC/QRPGLESRC,QUSLFLD   
> 
> We have always compiled to a previous release, when creating the
> program. We are now seeing a compile error for around 8 fields that
> are in the copy book. One of the errors is with this field below.
> 
> QUSICCSW              477    492P 0                                 
>                                             IC Curr Start With   
> 
> RNF0503 - Length of numeric item QUSICCSW00 is greater than 30    
> digits; defaults to 30.                                 
> 
> The problem is that IBM decided to add 31 byte numeric fields to the
> end of the record formats QUSL0100, and now we cannot get these
> programs to compile after we introduced a small change, unless we
> decide to set the targer compile release to V5R2.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem and how has it been handled other
> than deciding to not use QSYSINC any more.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Krish
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Jonathan Mason
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