Re: bnddir *SRVPGM *IMMED vs *DEFER

[Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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