RE: Service Programs

["Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Scott, I learn something new every day whether I mean to or not!
:-)

Joel R. Cochran
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Mildenberger [mailto:Smildenber@Washcorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:55 AM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Service Programs
>
>
> Joel, Just a slight correction on this statement.  UPDSRVPGM
> does not rebind
> the programs that use it.  Using a service program causes the
> procedures to
> be 'bound by reference' which means they are found at run time.  So
> UPDSRVPGM just changes the service program and when any
> program that uses it
> goes through service program activation it will find the new
> copy and use
> it.  This is why already running programs don't see the new
> version, they
> don't go through the acitvation step again so they continue
> using the old
> version until their activation group ends.
>
> Scott Mildenberger
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel R. Cochran [mailto:jrc@masi-brac.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:23 AM
> > To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: Service Programs
> >
> > By placing the module in a Service Program instead, if you
> recompile a
> > module you need only run the UPDSRVPGM command indiciating
> > the new module.
> > This command will automatically find and re-bind all the
> > other programs that
> > use it.  Now your 100 programs are updated in 1 command.
> >
> > Two things to keep in mind: if you are running Named
> > Activation Groups the
> > UPDSRVPGM command will not rebind the copies of programs open
> > in an active
> > Named Activation Group, so you must stop and restart the
> > ACTGRP to affect
> > the change.
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