RE: Need help with a service program -- RPG400-L

Agreed. The ONLY time I ever use EXPORT(*ALL) is when I create a brand new service program. I create it with EXPORT(*ALL) and then generate the binder source from the service program. Mainly, I'm too lazy type it all the first time. :)

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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 12:53 PM
To: Rpg400 Rpg400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Need help with a service program

You’d better believe it!

*ALL will cause the exported names to be ordered alphabetically and the signature generated. Add a new export and it will have a different signature. Decide to specify the sequence yourself (in anything other than alpha order) and it will be a different signature. And on and on.

EXPORT(*ALL) is rarely (read never) a good idea.

Jon Paris

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On Aug 12, 2016, at 1:28 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just found that Aldon is creating the service program with EXPORT(*ALL).
Would this cause my problem?

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Subject: RE: Need help with a service program

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/12/2016
01:13:00
PM:

So, backing up a step, we use auto generated signatures. Where does

*PRV

get the old signatures?

I know the binder will search the binding directory for a
matching service program name. So, I would think that it could get
the previous signature from the previous version of the service
program. If you're not using a binding directory then that may be part of the problem, too.

Sincerely,

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