Re: CRTSRVPGM

Thanks Barbara.  Brad gave me a very good reading material and now I
understood my first compilation problem.




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From: <bmorris@ca.ibm.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: CRTSRVPGM


>
> >Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:29:31 -0400
> >From: "Rex Capio" <rex_capio@swimtrend.com>
> >
> >Brad,
> >
> >Export parameter "*ALL" worked....  Thanks a lot...
>
> Rex, I hope you'll heed Brad's warnings about using *ALL.
>
> If you use the seductively easy *ALL, you will soon be
> asking the much harder question "how do I find all the
> programs that use a service program" because you'll start
> getting errors running your programs as soon as you try to
> add a new procedure or module to the service program.
>
> Using binder source is easy.  Here's a step by step:
>
> 1. For all the modules that you want to use in the
>    service program, do
>
>    ===> DSPMOD DETAIL(*EXPORT) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE)
>                OUTFILE(QTEMP/MODINFO) OUTMBR(*FIRST *ADD)
>
>    Later in step 4, use cut and paste from column 52 of
>    this file.
> 2. Think of a name for the service program (say UTIL).  You
>    will also use this name for the binder source member and
>    the signature.
> 3. Create a source physical file called QSRVSRC, and create a
>    source member called UTIL.
> 4. Say your modules are MOD2 and MOD3, and the total list
>    of procedures is: PROC1 PROC2 proc3.  Here is the code
>    for your UTIL source member:
>
>    /* ================================================== */
>    /* New exports MUST be added at the end.              */
>    /* Old exports MUST NEVER be removed from the list.   */
>    /* !!! The order MUST NEVER CHANGE !!!                */
>    /* ================================================== */
>    STRPGMEXP PGMLVL( *CURRENT ) SIGNATURE("UTIL")
>    EXPORT SYMBOL("PROC1")
>    EXPORT SYMBOL("PROC2")
>    EXPORT SYMBOL("proc3")
>    ENDPGMEXP
>
>    (You could easily write a program to process the outfile
>    from step 1 to generate the EXPORT SYMBOLs, but cut and
>    paste is easy.)
>
> 5. Now do
>    ==> CRTSRVPGM MYLIB/UTIL MODULE(MOD2 MOD3) SRCFILE(QSRVSRC)
>                  SRCMBR(UTIL) ACTGRP(*CALLER)
> 6. Create a binding directory and add your service program to it:
>    ==> CRTBNDDIR MYLIB/MYBNDDIR
>    ==> ADDBNDDIRE BNDDIR(MYLIB/MYBNDDIR)
>                   OBJ((MYLIB/UTIL *SRVPGM))
> 7. Specify BNDDIR(MYLIB/MYBNDDIR) on your CRTBNDRPGs and CRTPGMs.
>
> You're done.
>
> 8. If you want to change any of the procedures in MOD1 or MOD2,
>    you just change them and re-create or update the service
>    program.
> 9. If you want to add new procedures or new modules, you just
>    write them, add the names of the new procedures to the end
>    of the procedures in your QSRVSRC, and re-create or update
>    the service program.
> 10.If you decide you want more than one service program, you
>    just add the new ones to the binding directory.
>
> There are other ways to handle service programs and signatures.
> You can read ILE Concepts for more information.
>
> Barbara Morris
>
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