Re: Cyclical reference in service programs?

David,

I would combine the service programs into one. In this case they
are bound together anyway so you take the full startup hit. If you
really want two, you can compile specifying the modules from the
alternate service program and after both are compiled, recompile
them specifying the alternate service program.

David Morris

>>> dgibbs@mks.com 03/15/02 08:15AM >>>
Folks:

I've got a bit of a quandary ... and I'm not sure how to resolve it.

I've got 3 service programs that are part of a system ...

SVCPGM-A
SVCPGM-B1
SVCPGM-B2

Most of the code in SVCPGM-A takes a bit of data and decides to call a
routine that's in either SVCPGM-B1 or SVCPGM-B2.

SVCPGM-A also has generic routines that are called by both SVCPGM-B1
and
SVCPGM-B2.

Problem is: I have routines in SVCPGM-B1 and SVCPGM-B2 that want to
call the
generic routines in SVCPGM-A.  Unfortunately, I can't get any of the
service
programs to compile first because the routines they are calling don't
exist
in the other service programs yet.

So, I can't compile SVCPGM-B1 because it calls routines in SVCPGM-A
(which
hasn't been created yet), and I can't compile SVCPGM-A, because it
calls
routines in SVCPGM-B1.

Any idea how I can resolve this problem?

Thanks!

david


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