Re: SrvPgms and Change Management

Fleming, Greg (ED) wrote:
> I think I need to learn more about binder source and signatures.  I
> reckon I'll also hit the MKS knowledgebase to see how to point the
> srvpgm object to the binder source. 

Binder source is specified on the CRTSRVPGM command ... 'Export source
file' and member.

> Can I do this even without doing the binder source thing ?  

I *THINK* so ... the automatically generated signature is based on the
name & order of procedures in the service program.

Check out Simon Coulter's excellent post on the topic that I just ran
across in the archives:
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200111/msg00355.html

> I tried and failed.  Just to see if I could make it work, I checked out
> a srvpgm and module both called Sdate. I didn't make any changes, and
> went ahead and tried to promote it to Q/A.  It automatically attempted
> to recompile some of the programs which use the procedures in the
> module, and the first one failed to compile.  

Well, what was the reason for the failure?

FWIW: I talked to the iSeries product manager about the white paper you
mentioned ... he reviewed it and said it wasn't the best one we've
written.  He indicated that he would try and rework it this weekend.

david
(who works for MKS as well as running midrange.com)