Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

Using comments for the mod marks is what one has to do with CL - we do that here. For RPG, using the first 5 positions has been successful, perhaps a happy accident - seems I have seen in RDi that with RPG type, the first 5 position actually consist of 2 values - at least, there are 2 colors - I checked the color syntax stuff in RDi - for RPG source type, the 1st 2 positions are a page number, positions 3-5 are a line number, the former is set with black text, the latter is gray text.

In IleRPG code, that area is given the syntax of a comment in RDi.

I just looked at the QUSLOBJ copy member in QSYSINC - IBM has modifications in the comment header, where the flag is $A0, for example - in the body, these might be marked in the right-hand comment area with @A0A for the first change, say.

I don't know if there are any fully-free copy members in QSYSINC, so I don't know what those would look like - I checked a recent one, last changed in 2018  - still fixed format, and no comments in the body, just the header.

Ramblings shall cease - back to work!

Regards
Vern

On 10/2/2019 8:30 AM, Jim Hawkins wrote:

You can't do that with full free (**Free in column 1 row 1)

I do it this way:

// Setll (System:'C ') clients; //d kc01
Setll (System:Client) clients; //a kc01

I have always put comments at the top of the program with the mod mark and

then in positions 1-4 put the mod mark. For >example

kc01 // Kerwin Crawford P#2196 kc01
kc01 // The program stopped working when xxx
.
.
.
kc01 // Setll (System:'C ') clients;
kc01 Setll (System:Client) clients;

Note I do not have any sort of CMS.

Jim Hawkins
Programmer Analyst
Interkal LLC
Kalamazoo, MI