RE: Size of Service Program

You can specify to *DEFER the activation of a service program when creating a program, or in the binding directory (and other places I'm sure). As far as I read the help, this is at the service program level, not at the procedure level. I believe this was released in v6.1

IBM Help for *DEFER:
"Activation of the bound service program may be deferred until a function it exports is called."

-Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 1:10 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Size of Service Program

Jerry, I was about to mention the same thing, though I believe you have to
explicitly specify it - it isn't a default if I remember correctly.

I haven't used this feature yet.

Aaron Bartell
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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eric,

Somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory (or imagination?) I recall that
beginning with 6.1 procedures in a service pgm would only be activated as
they are invoked (called). Before that the entire service pgm, even
routines that you did not need in a particular case, got activated.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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