Re: Constants in RPG

David,
That is generally what I personally try to do. A copy book for constants
that are used everywhere and others are always global constants, unless
there is no reason any other procedure would EVER need to use it.

I prefer RELATION_AUNT to just AUNT. While AUNT would work fine in this
instance, sometimes you might want use the same word for other constants.
Take ERROR for example, you might have an ORDER_ERROR, ORDER_LINE_ERROR,
etc. The more descriptive the better in my opinion.

Just to let you know how I generally code my constants. For any constant
that I use for general constants I always us a C_ as a prefix, e.g
C_RELATION_AUNT. For IBM style, *ALL, I use an @, @ALL. I use these because
RPG is not case sensitive so it just signifies that the field is a constant
on not a normal variable.

--
James R. Perkins