Re: which api's are in which service programs

How do you find which service programs contain the API's you want to use?

1) The APIs you have referenced (or at least the correctly spelled versions
- you probably meant QEZSNDMG and QWCLOBJL) are not bindable - they are
dynamic program calls - so the point is moot.

2) As a general rule - if the API name is all capital letters it is a
dynamic program call.  If there are lower-case letters included then it is a
bindable API.  See 3 for more on this.

3) The vast majority of system level APIs are incorporated in the system
binding directory which is automatically referenced by the compiler.  So no
action is needed.  This includes things like the CEE APIs etc.  Some APIs
(for example the C math library) will not be automatically found.  In the
vast majority of cases the use of binding directory QC2LE (the one supplied
for the C compiler) will resolve all of these.  There are a few instances
when another binding directory is needed - but its name will be referenced
in the APIs documentation.

4) Unless you want to copy a service program into another library for some
odd reason you will never need to worry about which service program contains
which system supplied procedure.  To the best of my knowledge they are
always referenced via a Binding Directory.

5) Binding directories are the way to go for your own in-house bindable
routines too.



Jon Paris
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