RE: ILE philosophy

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been using service programs for about 5 years and I will echo what
the other Scott says below.  Service programs are a much better option.  We
have an application here that someone else wrote that binds modules by copy
and it is a real pain to have to do maintenance on it.  Plus the fact that
if you miss rebinding a program when a change was made it will go along
happily with the old version.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:32 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: ILE philosophy
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> IMHO, don't even waste your time with modules in a binding directory.
> Just create service programs & binder source.
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> Binder source doesn't create maintenance problems, it solves them.
> You could do all of your service programs without even using binder
> source, and that would create maintenance problems, but not as many
> problems as binding directly to the modules will create.
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> I doubt you'll ever notice the speed difference between bind-by-copy
> and bind-by-reference...  At least, I don't.
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