Re: Weird message on bind failure

Bruce Vining wrote:

QUSAPIBD is an IBM provided binding directory which provides entries for
*SRVPGM based system APIs. It is implicitly included by all of the ILE
compilers and is discussed at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/apiref/ileOverview.htm.


I don't have the QNOTES entry that you saw on my system and suspect some LP
was loaded in the past and then didn't clean up properly when it was later
removed.

That explains much, and I kind of suspected both parts of what you said.

And Mr. Mildenberger, thanks for the information on default binding directory data areas. As Johnny Carson was so fond of saying, "I did not know that." (I'm also reminded of that incident with Carson, Jim Fowler, and a goliath beetle -- "I didn't know he could fly!" -- "What ELSE didn't you know about him?!?")

I wonder if maybe the people who'd successfully compiled the program last night, and didn't seem to know why we'd experienced a bind failure, might have had such a data area in their library list, that we didn't have (even though I painstakingly reset ours to what they said they had), and didn't know about it.

At any rate, the necessary H-spec is in the source member now, and so the problem was solved before I'd even asked about it. But it's nice to understand what's going on, even after the fact.

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JHHL