Re: UPDSRVPGM

And to add a little more help in the future, compiling different sources:

Scott Klement made a utility named BUILD
and
Alan Camping made a utility named COMPILE

HTH,
Leif

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 16-11-2023 18:21:00
Subject: Re: UPDSRVPGM
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UPDSRVPGM only allows you to "snap in" a replacement *MODULE. There is no way to add a new *MODULE to an existing *SRVPGM - it has to be re-created with CRTSRVPGM. (No need to delete - the CRTSRVPGM has the REPLACE(*YES) option.)

The Binder Source allows you the flexibility of managing the Signature of the *SRVPGM such that you wouldn't (normally) re-create all dependent *PGMs/*SRVPGMs which reference it - UNLESS they are calling procedures in the new (added) *MODULE. It does this through the use of multiple *PRV Signatures, (for backward compatibility) as well as the *CURRENT Signature.

GOLDEN RULE: Add new exports to the end of the STRPGMEXP/ENDPGMEXP block.

(An alternative approach is to manually control the SIGNATURE on the STRPGMEXP binder source statement by replacing *GEN with your chosen hex/character string.)

HTH,
Brian.