Re: Setting on *inlr in a service program's module..

And I started writing service program with V3R6 so I had procedures from
the beginning. I just know that was not how you wrote them in the PC world.
Service programs were just the AS/400 equivalent of a DLL(Dynamic Link Load
Library) and I have been fighting for 22 years since to get people to use
procedures. That amazes me. 22 years.


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Probably because when ILE RPG came out it could not create subprocedures.
That was a V3R2/6 addition to the language. So for the currency of the V3R1
releases, binding entry procedures into a Service Program was (other than
using C) the only way to go.


Jon Paris

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On Nov 13, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

yea, but how does a *ENTRY module fit into that. You can do that and I

have

seen people doing it.

Back when I ILE first shipped the tech journals were publishing articles
telling people that is how you write service programs. I remember

thinking

"what the hell. This is not how you write a service program" and later
articles started appearing with procedures.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Hiebert, Chris <
chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan
Campin
--- Recently we had a programmer write a service program without the
NOMAIN and he used a *INLR so we ended up with a service program using

the

cycle.


A service program would never use the cycle in the same sense that a

bound

program does.


The modules of the Service program "should" be created Nomain.

You can still bind "Main" modules into a service program.
But only exported procedures are included in a service program.
If none of the procedures in the "Main" module are exported, then the
module is just a waste of space as it contains non reachable code.


A service program is a collection of exported procedures.
Turning on LR in a service program procedure has no impact on resources

of

a service program.



Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
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