RE: Can *SRVPGM call *PGM?

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

THANKS, David! We'll check it out. -Marty

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date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:35:26 -0500
from: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Can *SRVPGM call *PGM?

Urbanek, Marty wrote:

> My associate has some *PGMs that he needs to call via JNI. He wanted to
make
> a service program out of them but he can't because he only has *PGMs, not
> *MODULEs or source code. Could we make another "layer", i.e. a small
> interface module that would reside in a *SRVPGM and then call the *PGMs?
> This way the Java could load the *SRVPGM containing the small interface
> module, call the interface, which would then call the *PGMs (which would
> reside in a regular library)?

Sure ... a service program (in any language) can have a module that does 
a normal, non-bound, program call.

In RPG: call 'program'
In CL: call pgm(programname)
In COBOL: <shrug, got me>

david