The TEMPLATE keyword, new in IBM I 6.1, informs the RPG compiler that this file will be used for field definition only, thus no IO operations are required or allowed for this file.
IBM i 6.1中新引入的TEMPLATE关键字通知rpg编译器：这个文件仅用于字段定义，不需要、也不允许为该文件进行IO操作。
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