RE: Creating a service program

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can have as many *PRVs as you want.  :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:01 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Creating a service program
> 
> 
> Curiosity question on this.  Okay, now you have 2 signatures 
> in your binder langauge, one
> *PRV for the old calls, one *CURRENT for the new calls.  What 
> do you do when you add
> a few more procedures to your directory?  You can't have 2 
> *PRV can you?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Mike Silvers wrote:
> 
> > You must specify the current signature and the old 
> signature in the binder
> > language.  The binder language is saved in a source file 
> and is of the type
> > MOD.  When the service program is compiled, you must then 
> specify the
> > location of the binder language.  The binder language would 
> state the
> > following to include the old signature:
> >
> > STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*CURRENT)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc1)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc2)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc3)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc4)
> > ENDPGMEXP
> >
> > STRPGMEXP  PGMLVL(*PRV)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc1)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc2)
> > EXPORT  SYMBOL(Proc3)
> > ENDPGMEXP
> >
> > What this is saying is that the current signature includes 
> all 4 procedures.
> > It saves an old signature with the first three procedures.  
> The older
> > programs will use the older signature with 3 procedures.  
> Any newer programs
> > that are compiled will use the new signature with 4 
> procedures.  Any program
> > using the older signature can not reference the new 4th 
> procedure unless it
> > is compiled again and has a prototype defining the new 
> procedure.  If a
> > program is compiled again, it will always use the current 
> signature, not any
> > of the old signatures.
> >
> > Mike
> 
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