Re: Service programs and QSRVSRC

Hi Kurt

6 of one, half a dozen of another. I found it easier to keep the signature than to keep adding *PRV sections. All I need to be careful of is to maintain the original order - i.e., do NOT replace it with another RTVBNDSRC!!

Signatures ARE arbitrary, there's no intrinsic relationship to anything. I found that using the object name makes as much sense as anything else. You pays your money, etc.

Again, I'm in an ISV context - lots of y'all are just working in the context of your won shops. It's painful to support someone who has all of a sudden been forced to recompile a bunch of things that depend on your product.

There's no best answer, I suspect. YMMV!

Vern

Kurt Anderson wrote:

If you retained the old signatures within the binder source and didn't make a change that required them to recompile the programs as well (e.g. a parameter change to an existing procedure), then there's no need to make them recompile to use the new version number.

Personally I've always let IBM name my signatures (always felt my naming was completely arbitrary), however applying versioning sounds like as good an idea as any to me.

And IBM and version numbers - well the new OS is 6.1 vs V6R1 (thank god). Also, the IDE environments use the version numbers. Just throwing that out there. ;)

-Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 3:22 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Service programs and QSRVSRC

Point well-taken. However, I'm working in a vendor situation - as much as possible, we want to avoid making the customer have to recompile anything that uses a *SRVPGM we distribute. Therefore, I don't use a version number. If I needed to force recompilation, I'd use some rename of the signature - perhaps a version number that's not there now.

Nonetheless, IBM do not typically use version numbers. Not that they are the be-all-and-end-all!!

Vern
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