Re: How can I tell if my compiled RPG program has a handler?

DSPPGMREF shows the service programs in use - these are the same as are listed in the *SRVPGM detail of DSPPGM - and they do not have anything special - there are 4, QRNXIE, QRNXIO, QRNXUTIL, and QLEAWI - these are always there, I believe, and have always been - they must comprise the RPG engine. I've not probed more deeply to see what procedures are in any of those, maybe there are new ones.

In a way, I think the point is, you should not need to know. Except that now we might WANT to know.

I ran DMPOBJ against both kinds of programs - the handler-type had an entry in a string directory of QRNX_GET_HANDLER - the regular one did not have that. Now the regular one also had no IO, and this procedure is in QRNXUTIL

A program with a handler has QRNXUTIL in the list of service programs when you DSPPGM. A program without a handler might NOT have that service program, not sure, since there are more things in there.

So that's enough treasure-hunting for now. If you feel you need this, perhaps make a service call and ask to have it added - or use the DCR approach or the COMMON requirement approach.

HTH
Vern

On 3/25/2011 9:53 AM, Ken Sims wrote:

Hi Tom -

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:19:09 -0400, "Tom Deskevich"
<thomas.l.deskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, I have tried DSPPGM DSPOBJD and cannot see anything that shows me definitively that my RPG program will use a handler.

I'm not using handlers and I haven't been following the discussion
that closely so I don't know if they use bound calls or dynamic calls.
But if it is a bound call you should be able to see something in
DSPPGM or if it is a dynamic call you should be able to see something
in DSPPGMREF.

Ken
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