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what happens when a copybook variables are declared using
include statement ?

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what happens when a copybook variables are declared using include statement ?..

Answer / shaan

Include is a precomplier statement and so the variables
would be expanded during precompilation time rather than at
compilation time.

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what happens when a copybook variables are declared using include statement ?..

Answer / talluri

copy and include stmt are prediffiend texts, but copy will
expand compilation time, but include will expand
precompilation time

correct me if any thing wrong

Talluri

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what happens when a copybook variables are declared using include statement ?..

Answer / chandrababu naidu

we should write include in between "exec and end-exec",
only precompiler will identify include.

working-storage section.
copy emptable.
or
exec sql
include emptable
end-exec.

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