RE: CGI problem

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Brad,

I think Neil is on the right track with the memo to user's but I wanted to 
comment on the signature change.

IBM service programs are not supposed to allow the signature to change even if 
the modules or procedures 
change.  The last I knew was that IBM service programs were supposed to be 
created with the service program 
name as the signature (e.g., QTMHCGI) and the service program author assumes 
responsibility for ensuring the 
program works correctly (i.e., procedure positions do not change).

The net is you should never get a signature violation from an IBM service 
program and you should NEVER have 
to recompile YOUR code just to get the new signature.  (That is really the 
point of multiple signature 
support in service programs).

In fact, if you get signature violations from IBM service programs on upgrades 
(and there is no notice of 
this possibility in the memo to users) then I'd be raising an APAR on that 
program.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 98 17:37:35 -0600
> From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: CGI problem

> 
> Chances are the QTMHCGI service program was changed, changing the signature
> of the service program.  This is most likely why your program is bombing.
> Try recompiling any programs that use this service program.  If you were to
> debug the http job (how to do this is explained actually pretty well inthe
> IBM manuals), you would probably see a signature violation error.
> 
> Give it a shot...  To verify this, before recompile, do a DSPPGM on your CGI
> program and look at the signature of the Service Program in question.  Then
> do the same for the service program.  They probably will be different.  (And
> long.. they look like this...  000E15105B5A878C93B56CB5E813152B)
> 
> Bradley V. Stone
> Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst 
> bvstone@taylorcorp.com
> 

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