PUIBNDRPG Compile time

[esdaled]

When I compile a program using PUIBNDRPG it takes much longer for the program to compile. For example, program A takes about 10 seconds to compile normally, but takes over 2 minutes using PUIBNDRPG. Is this normal?

If I look at the compile job, it seems to be using very little CPU but spending a long time in procedure GETQUALIFIEDFILE in program PUI0001300.

[Rob]

GETQUALIFIEDFILE is called once per copy source member line (/copy or /include) in your RPG source code. Do you have a large number of /copy or /include lines in your source?

[esdaled]

The program in question has 12 copybooks, 1 of which includes a copybook.

The majority of our copybooks are prototypes (and their associated data structures) and few of the copybooks are snippets of calc specs.

[Rob]

The pre-processor loads all copybooks (recursively) into the main source member (in QTEMP) so it can pre-process all relevant code. In actual fact we could improve this by only loading C-Spec copybooks. We can look at this in a future release.