Dan,
I had been using 100 for years before coming here. I never even thought to look until my compiler started choking on missing source. Surprise, surprise.
I'm thinking that 100 is going to be the standard here unless somebody convinces me or my handlers that a larger number is better.
Thanks
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 1:12 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] 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
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