Re: Multiple issues with CL Source editing

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Duane Scott <dscott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Third is the problem of what to set as the record length for the CL Source
file. Since the compiler will accept 100 column commands, and the settings
on RDi are "*RCDLEN", "80" and "100", one would think that the new record
length for CL Source Files should be 112. But record length for CL is not
specifically discussed in more recent issues of manuals that I could find.
RPG has quite a few discussions of longer settings being available. I'm
not sure if we should stick to 80, move to 100, or go beyond. The fact
that some of our programmers and operations staff still use SEU is of
issue, but I'd like to hear some other viewpoints.

I've been using 100-character source lines (record length=112) for CL for
at least several years now. I really can't remember when/if the compiler
ever choked at anything past column 80. It's true that the command
prompter in SEU always formats assuming 80-character length, but that never
meant that you couldn't code anything yourself after column 80.

- Dan