I don't know about elegant but that's how I do it too. At least it's reasonably obvious and under my control.
The idea of an auto-invoke makes me think of *INZSR which I detest. "Magic" routines running on their own? No thanks.
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:26 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Equivalent of *INZSR for service programs
Is there any way to invoke a specific procedure when a service program
is first activated? For example, to load configuration information. I
can use a pretty simple brute force design pattern: every procedure in
the service program calls an internal procedure called init(), and the
first thing init() does is check a static variable to see if it's
already been called. I don't have a problem with that technique, but I
was just wondering if I was missing something a little more elegant.
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