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Hi, since we have not received any feedback, this RFE is being cancelled. Feel free to open a new one if you are able to answer the previous questions. Thanks.
May we know if you got a chance to review our April 14th, 2020 update?
We shall keep this RFE open till June 17th, 2020 after which we shall close it if no response by then. Thanks.
May I know if you got a chance to review our previous update?
Hi,
According to our docs, RULES(NOUNREF) reports both 01-level and 77-level items. In your previous comment, it looks like you want reports on unused data items of all levels (despite some of those being unsafe to remove, without careful testing, due to them changing the layout of data within 01-level items). May we know why you would need this?
The effort to remove them would be substantial.
Thanks.
Please use RULES(NOUNREF) sup-option which should satisfy the level 1 items. In general, is it the case that a bunch of subroutines are submitted to many link steps? Static calls within that list of subroutines? If that is the case, can you use the output from the binder to eliminate the non-referenced ones?
If it is easier to report level 1 items, them maybe we can start with those and come back to the deeper levels later, but eventually we'd like to see all levels of unreferenced variables reported. Also, if it is easier to add "UNREFERENCED" to column 45 of the existing " Cross-reference of data names", we can work with that, too. We can use an edit macro to isolate the unreferenced variables that way.
I have never seen nested subroutines in our code, but nearly all of our code has multiple subroutines.
Hi, we would like to know if you needed more than just level 1 items reported? Also, do you have nested subroutines or multiple subroutines in a batch program?