RE: Best way of using Service programs.

 >What is the value add compared to organizing your procedures in a limited
number of service programs and then specifying that list of service programs
on the CRTPGM and CRTSRVPGM commands?

The way I use them is to organize service programs by function. So I have a
binding directory for CGI related service programs, one for inventory, one
for order entry, etc. Within each of these binding directories will be a
generalized group of service programs that are made use of from an
application set.

Let's say I have a service program named STRING. That service program will
most likely appear in ALL of the binding directories mentioned above because
string manipulation will need to be a function of all of them. Let's say I
have a service program named XML. That service program will only appear in
the CGI binding directory because inventory and order entry have no need for
the XML service program.

Binding directories are used to ease compiling by making intelligibly
grouped service programs. 

>I have a custom build CL for each service program and use the BNDSRVPGM
parm to list the service programs there.

I am guessing you need this for more than just to specify the service
programs that should be bound, but if that was the only reason then you
could get rid of it in favor of binding directories.

HTH,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:30 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Best way of using Service programs.

On 2/14/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What was Turnover's reason for not using Binding Directories.
>
> I myself am a big fan of Binding Directories because it eases 
> compiling, and as long as you don't fully qualify the binding 
> directory entries you should be fine when you deploy them to another 
> machine and place them in a different library than that of the dev 
> machine (learned that one the hard way :-)

it is likely I dont know what I am talking about, but I have yet to learn
about binding directories because I have not had the need to use them.  What
is the value add compared to organizing your procedures in a limited number
of service programs and then specifying that list of service programs on the
CRTPGM and CRTSRVPGM commands?  I have a custom build CL for each service
program and use the BNDSRVPGM parm to list the service programs there. Kind
of the same thing in the build CL program that creates all the programs of
an application.

Signature violations is what used to confuse me. Once I learned that *PRV
signature support was not worth using and the do's and dont's or organizing
your binding source exports alphabetically, I have not had much trouble with
my service programs.

-Steve

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