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Best practice...don't do it :) . Updating a service program shouldn't
require recompilation of the callers.

You can change the PI in a manner that doesn't requires recompilation, by
adding NOPASS parms.

If you're using binder language and EXPORT(*SOURCE) on the CRTSRVPGM...
Then you can do stuff like, rename the export and add a new export with the
name. Existing programs will continue to call the old procedure, but when
recompiled, will start calling the new. (and get a compile error if the
parms don't match anymore)

If you absolutely want to force a recompile, make sure you're changing the
*SRVPGM signature. Anything that doesn't get recompiled will get a
signature mismatch (hard error).

The only other thing to watch out for is how your programs are bound to the
*SRVPGM. Is *LIBL used? Or a qualified name? Could be in either the
CRTPGM BNDSRVPGM(...) parm or in the binding directory entries specified in
BNDDIR()...).

Charles




On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 3:04 PM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, I have to modify an application that consists of 4-5 pgms
and a service program. I'll be changing the PI on most calls.

With programs I normally just make the change, stick them in a test
library to work out the bugs, then move them into a "ptf" type library.
That way if something happens I can simply remove the objects from the PTF
library.

Is there a trick to doing this when you're binding to a service program?

TIA
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