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Mark

I think things are different when you are the only ones consuming your service program - as a vendor, we have lots of people who would need to recompile things - and some have lots of programs built over our service programs.

Also, IBM itself does not typically use generated signatures - it controls it - often is just the name of the service program. Guess if they can live with that, I can too.

Later
Vern

At 09:51 PM 2/13/2008, you wrote:

Simon,

You're technically correct, of course, but since I've needed to
track down an elusive bug due to someone forgetting to change the
named signature, I've decided to go back to letting the system assign
the signature.

Since the compilation and last source change date can be retrieved
from the object itself, I don't see a major advantage in putting the
version in the signature.

-mark

At 2/13/08 04:01 PM, you wrote:

>On 14/02/2008, at 6:57 AM, M. Lazarus wrote:
>
> > That method tells the system that you are managing the
> > signatures. This is almost the equivalent of setting LVLCHK(*NO) on
> > your files. It gets rid of the error message, but also disables the
> > error checking!
>
>Only if you never change the signature. You can still get signature
>protection if YOU specify a new signature. For example:
>
>STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*CURRENT) SIGNATURE('USEFUL_TOOLS_310)
>STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PRV) SIGNATURE('USEFUL_TOOLS_240)
>STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PRV) SIGNATURE('USEFUL_TOOLS_230)
>STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PRV) SIGNATURE('USEFUL_TOOLS_220)
>STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PRV) SIGNATURE('USEFUL_TOOLS_210)
>STRPGMEXP PGMLVL(*PRV) SIGNATURE('USEFUL_TOOLS_110)
>
>This has the advantage of 'meaningful' signatures AND the so-called
>level check.
>
>Regards,
>Simon Coulter.


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