Re: bnddir *SRVPGM *IMMED vs *DEFER

I have just had a look at our binding directories and all are *IMMED

Many were created long ago and I think new service programs have been
added just copying.

I also notice when doing a dspsrvpgm <service_program> that the IBM
service programs are also *IMMED

Example

Service
Program Library Activation
QRNXIE QSYS *IMMED
QRNXIO QSYS *IMMED
QRNXUTIL QSYS *IMMED

So from what I have read I should have no concern in changing our
application binding directory entries to *DEFER and recreating our service
programs ?

Is that correct ?

Thanks

Don




From: "Brad Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on IBM i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26/08/2021 06:57 AM
Subject: Re: bnddir *SRVPGM *IMMED vs *DEFER
Sent by: "RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Not at all that I can think of...

I'm actually making those changes to my stuff as well, and try to remember
to override it when I add a new entry.

Default should be *DEFER I think. :) I know you can change it, but I
work
on a lot of different machines and some don't let you change defaults.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 2:31 PM Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Why would anyone want to use *IMMED over *DEFER?

We currently have most of our SRVPGMS in our binding directory defined

with

*IMMED but running into issues when the *SRVPGM is not in the library
list. Upon pgm initialization, if the *SRVPGM's cannot be found in the
libl, the pgm blows up. But if we set it to *DEFER we would have an
opportunity on the first call to ADDLIBLE.

I know there are other ways to handle this, such as just specifying the
library in the binding directory along with the *SRVPGM but we don't

want

to do that.

Anyone see any issues with doing a mass *IMMED change to *DEFER and
recompiling our pgms? So that we may include this small step to

ADDLIBLE

on first pgm call?

tia

Jay
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