Re: Creating a service program

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello RIchard,

Thanks for the history.  I find it interesting to learn more about what happens 
behind 
the scenes.

You wrote:
>I'm pretty sure that, at the time, some of use didn't completely understand
>the signature solution (I recall feeling nervous about the complexity of it
>all) and we weren't told very much about the implementations.  If it didn't
>work out very well from your point of view, we did our best and I think that
>it turned out okay - I don't feel too badly about it.

I don't feel badly.  In fact I have no problem at all with the way signatures 
currently 
work.  It is a very flexible solution to a complex problem with out being 
overly complex 
in itself.  What I don't understand is the big deal some people make out of 
this.

        Write a procedure
        Is it public? Yes. Add an export
        Write a procedure
        Is it public? Yes. Add an export
        Write a procedure
        Is it public? No. Don't add an export

What's so hard about that?  New procedure after service program is in 
production? Copy 
current signature, set level to *PRV, add new export to current signature.  
Again, where 
is the difficulty?  This is all just process management.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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