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Each time I add a new procedure to the service program, the copy book
changes and as such I have to recompile all of my programs that use this.
Huh?  Why would adding a new prototype to a copy book require you to 
recompile all the programs?
If the programs don't use that prototype, what does it accomplish to 
recompile them?
If they do use the prototype, you have to re-compile them anyway, since 
you have to add code to call the procedure.
So for this setup I feel the best way to go might be to not use copybooks.
Am I missing anything here.
If you don't use a copybook, then you have to re-write the prototype in 
every program.  That suddenly makes the routines much more difficult to 
re-use.
In addition to that, it increases the changes of introducing a bug. 
Prototypes are there to protect you from passing invalid parameters to a 
procedure.  The way they do that is by establishing a set of rules for how 
the parameters need to be passed, matching that against the PI to make 
sure they're the same.  As long as you reuse the same prototype, you're 
protected against errors.
If you re-write the prototype every time, there's no longer any guarantee 
that it'll match the PI, and therefore each tiem you write it, you risk 
making a mistake and discarding the protection prototypes offer.
I simply can't imagine that Turnover or MKS or any of the major change 
management systems would prevent you from using prototypes properly.





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