RE: SQL variables not created by precompiler

Have the pre-compiler generate the intermediate source and examine
that. This sort of thing is usually caused by the sequence of
declarations. There is something in your coding style that is
confusing the pre-compiler and it is putting its definitions in a spot
that the subsequent RPG compiler either cannot see or is treating as
part of something else. There was a particularly stupid example shown
on this list in recent months but, of course, I can't find it now.

Thank you, Simon, that step led me to the solution: change /COPY to
/INCLUDE. At this client, rather than Service Programs, they tend to use
copy code, in a single member. The member has the prototypes and the
procedures separated by /IF DEFINED() compiler directives. You set the
appropriate DEFINEs and /copy (sorry, /include) the source member toward the
top and the bottom of the source.

Apparently, when it saw the procedure interfaces (since /DEFINEs are not
understood by this compiler) it decided to insert the definitions there.

... and then at CRTRPGPGM time, the code that contained those definitions
was excluded due to an /IF DEFINED() that wasn't. :)

Thanks for the tip, Simon. Very useful!

Dennis Lovelady
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