Re: Are SQL statement lines limited to 80 characters ?

This was a program using freeform statements.

Here's how I got it to work:
https://blog.richardschoen.net/2026/02/my-sql-rpg-program-wont-compile.html

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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message: 2
date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 20:31:55 +0100
from: Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Are SQL statement lines limited to 80 characters ?

The RPG reference says this:

-> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=functions-sql

And this:

-> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=specifications-free-form-st
-> atements#freestmt

The essence is:

- in **free there is no limitation of the statement length

- in /free (or "column-limited free-form source") everything after column 80 has to be preceded by // and therefore is a comment

So there shouldn't be a problem with source after column 80 in **free source.

Which error message is emitted by the pre-compiler? Does RDi flag the statement as invalid?

HTH
Daniel