Re: SQL query to know lines of code for all the programs and it's associated modules

Just to add to Buck's list, does 'all the programs' include all of IBM's proprietary system programs?

Are you planning on comparing this to all the same statistics from a Windows sytem?  a Linux system?

On 6/27/2023 10:01 AM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 6/27/2023 12:15 PM, tim ken wrote:

Is there any SQL query which could provide lines of  code used inside all
the programs and all the associated modules used in the entire IBM i system?

What do these mean:
  'provide lines of code'
  'all the programs'
  'all the associated modules'
  'entire IBM i system'

The reasons that clarifications are needed:
Does 'provide' mean a count, a copy of each actual line, something else?
Does 'line of code' refer to source lines, compiled MI lines, something else?
If source lines, how does one account for continuations, are they a single line of code, multiple, something else?

It is very difficult to understand what value any of this might provide; what question is being answered, what decisions will be made based upon this information, what the actual business problem is.

Also in this SQL query can we know how many lines are commented and  how
many lines are actual program and module code  separately in different
columns against each program and it's associated module name ?

Again, clarification is needed. How do you want to treat right-hand comments? As a commented line, as a line of code, something else? Remember that a comment varies according to the programming language. A comment in Cobol is different to a comment in RPG 3, RPG IV, CL, Python, DDS... Our hypothetical SQL statement would need quite a few CASE statements to pick these out. What about blank lines? Continuations of comment lines?

If you are after a rough idea of the size of your application code, I would use DSPFD to an OUTFILE() and query the number of members/records in the source files found there.