Re: Help with Service Programming

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi John,

UPDSRVPGM is to replace a module in an *existing* service program.  So 
if you had SRVPGM1 and it was made up of MODULEA, MODULEB, MODULEC you 
might want to recompile just MODULEB without changing the other two, and 
replace just that part of the service program.  So you'd CRTRPGMOD 
MODULEB, and then UPDSRVPGM SRVPGM1 MODULE(MODULEB)  and presto, you've 
recompiled just one part of the service program, and replaced it without 
having to touch the other two modules.

However -- if the service program doesn't yet exist, UPDSRVPGM won't 
work.  Again, as the name "update" implies -- it's there to update an 
existing one, not create a new one.

To create a new one, use the CRTSRVPGM command.



On 2/19/2010 4:54 PM, Kelly, John (Limerick) wrote:
>   This where I get confused with the binding directory stuff. I created
> the module program successfully (via CRTRPGMOD). I then ran the
> UPDSVRPGM. The message tells me that UTILITY service program does not
> exist. With just running the CRTRPGMOD and UPDSRVPGM I cannot see were
> the UTILITY service program object gets created.