Re: QSYSINC/QUSLFLD usage in RPG in V5R2

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 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.

what about adding some conditional compile stmts to the QUSLFLD source member?
 
 /if defined( *V5R2M0 )
 QUSICCSW              477    492P 0
 /endif

-Steve