RE: Replacing *SRVPGM in production

Hi Nelson -

>Has anyone come up with a way to replace an "active"
>service program in production (with a new version)
>without getting pointer errors in the programs that
>are currently using it?
>
>I'm looking for some method kinda like how the OS moves
>existing programs to QRPLOBJ and other programs calling
>them can still find them.  That doesn't seem to work with
>service programs.

I've never had this kind of problem.  And replaced service programs do go to
QRPLOBJ.
I have a PDM option to do the CRTSRVPGM command.  The result looks like
this:
CRTSRVPGM SRVPGM(NVCUST/@_CFGSRV)
          MODULE(@_CFGSRV)
          TEXT('Configuration service program
                     ')
          ACTGRP(*CALLER)
          OPTION(*DUPPROC *DUPVAR)
          DETAIL(*BASIC)
          REPLACE(*YES)

The REPLACE(*YES) causes the old version to be put into QRPLOBJ, just as it
does for regular programs.

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
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