RE: QSYSINC/QUSLFLD usage in RPG in V5R2

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. Re: QSYSINC/QUSLFLD usage in RPG in V5R2 (Krish Thirumalai)
>
>So we can hope that IBM will do the right thing in the future, :-)

Krish:

Regardless of IBM's support, I would still use copies of the source members 
rather than compiling with direct references to QSYSINC source files. I don't 
mind updating my copies nor would I mind seeing IBM's recommended conditional 
compile source directives.

But I would _not_ want to get caught trying to track down a simple typo in one 
of their upgraded source members just because I had an emergency fix that I 
needed to promote to production shortly after some system upgrade. I'll make my 
copies and test and debug in a development environment. And until I've done 
that, I'll want to keep referring to the ones that I'm already confortable with.

It'll take a lot of convincing before I ever recommend to refer to QSYSINC 
members directly. It's too easy to do your own copies and the benefit is far 
too great.

Tom Liotta

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