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While it *should* be intuitive to whateverthenameisthisweek (place trademark here) professionals...we've also become accustomed to never assume anything... It would make more sense for exports to be managed by name rather than by ordinal position in the source member. To use files as an analogy, if you rename a file will it be found because of it's ordinal position in program source?? Nope... Exports *should* have been IMO treated as objects. But that's just 1 opinion... Thanks, Tommy Holden -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:48 PM To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Best way of using Service programs >> In practice, you don't get a signature violation if you assign your own signatures. Once you supply the signature, if don't always add the exports to the end of the list ( which is counter intuitive ) you are in for a lot of trouble. Intuition shouldn't come into it. When you say "I control the signature" you assuming responsibility for making things match. It is fundamentally the same situation as a level check on a file. You can turn it off but you'd better make sure that you add new fields to the end of the record. SO in as much as S/38, AS/400, iSeries, and i5 folks have been doing that for years perhaps it is indeed a lot more intuitive than you think <grin> Jon Paris
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