Re: Is there anyway to change a PI and not re-bind?

Coyle, Stephen F. wrote:

What you describe is exactly what I do. When you say "probably
unnecessary" I was confused. Wouldn't you have to create a new current
signature so the new programs could use the new parameter, while leaving
existing programs to use *PRV?

Creating a new *PRV signature doesn't have any effect (positive or negative) on the way the service program operates for programs that were not rebound. The new signature just provides visual documentation of which version of the service program that the program was bound to.

The srvpgm signature doesn't include any information about the nature or number of the parameters, so if you are creating a new signature because you think it will protect your srvpgm procedures from being called incorrectly, you shouldn't bother. (If you are doing it for reasons similar to Buck, go ahead, but don't count on any protection.)

Or can a *NOPASS parameter be added to a PI and existing programs not
using this parm will run fine as long as the procedure doesn't reference
the new parm?

Exactly.