Executing a SubProcedure before #Main

["Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >> Along the same lines....is it possible to have a main procedure in a
module that was used to create a service program?  and, how would you call
it, if it's not a PEP?

Yup - folks do it all the time.  The PEP is just a consistently named entry
point that the OS can be sure exists in an ILE PGM object.  So the OS calls
the PEP because it knows where the "real" mainline starts and (more
importantly) what it is called.  All main procedures are implicitly exported
so it can be called directly by name whether bound by copy or bound by
reference as in a service program.  That said - it's not as efficient as
coding as a subproc because you still have cycle overhead.  Procedures-only
modules can use NOMAIN to avoid this.

Jon Paris
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