Re: Module references

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ellen,

Why use a binding directory?  If you know the modules and service 
programs that a program or service program references, it is not necessary 
to use a binding directory.  Like you, we maintain relations between 
objects in a file and at this point we have a single binding directory with a 
single entry.  This binding directory was only necessary because one 
procedure, that is used by several programs, must be bound by copy.

Based on the information in the cross reference files we build the CRTPGM or 
CRTSRVPGM command string.  Another parameter that makes the whole job 
easier is the ALWLIBUPD of the CRTSRVPGM.   This parameter helps when 
there are circular references between service program being moved to 
production.

David Morris


>>> Ellen ter Hazeborg <hazeborg@conne.net> 02/02 10:23 AM >>>
We do not develop programs for other companies, we only develop them for
our company. If we want to make a change, eg. adding a field to a file,
we have to do this during the night because most of the users are at
home at that time. But we do not like working at night very much and
therefore we have written some tools to make such changes without being
online. These tools use several files which store information about
database relation, program relations and, very important, the relation
between source and object. This information we get by using DSPPGMREF
and DSPPGM etc. But we do not get any information about how a program
with a module has to be compiled ! For that reason we want to get the
bind directory to do the compilation.

I hope I could explain the reasons (English is not my mother tongue as
you already have guessed).

Cheers, Ellen


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