Re: Service Programs / Binding Directories / *DUPPROC

That base module is going to determine which other components are included/referenced surely.

The Export list is only identifying those labels to be exported from the service program - not the overall components to be included. It could easily get to be a nasty circular mess without some "guidance".


Jon Paris

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On Feb 6, 2018, at 4:24 PM, Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Forgive me for hijacking this thread a little. One thing I have never quite understood about the CRTSRVPGM command, perhaps someone can enlighten me?

Suppose I wish to create a *SRVPGM using the Binder Language to define the procedure exports. Suppose also I wish to use a *BNDDIR to specify the list of *MODULES to search for these exports.

QUESTION: Why then must the CRTSRVPGM command still have the MODULE parameter explicitly defined? In other words, why does (at least) one *MODULE have to be specified explicitly on the command. (The default is MODULE(*SRVPGM).) The Binder Language will specify the export symbol table and thus determine other *MODULES that are required from the *BNDDIR (and hence any other *SRVPGMs/*MODULEs) to complete the bind.

CRTSRVPGM SRVPGM(SRVPGMNAME)
MODULE(???????) <<< Why is this needed??
EXPORT(*SRCFILE) SRCFILE(QSRVSRC)
BNDDIR(DIRNAME)

Put another way, since a *SRVPGM has no Entry Module, why is the MODULE parameter required at all? (The BNDSRVPGM parameter is optional, so why not the MODULE parameter under these circumstances?)

Silly Example: Suppose I specified MODULE(NOEXPORTS) above. By implication NOEXPORTS does nothing at all. It is of no use within the *SRVPGM yet the parameter must be specified.

I must be missing something obvious.

Brian.
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