RE: Best way of using Service programs

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


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:48 PM
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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