Re: Service Program or Stand Alone Program

Thanks Charles.
I did know that the prototype was required, and had designed my app in that
way.
Since I am using /Free, I always use prototypes when calling other
programs/procedures.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

First of all, a correction...

*PGM or *SRVPGM doesn't matter, you need (should have) a prototype.

1) Repeated calls to a procedure in a service program are faster
2) You can always easily create a *PGM wrapper for an existing *SRVPGM
procedure if you ever need it.

What you're really asking is does it make sense to have a one procedure
service program? I say yes, if you absolutly can't group it with anything
else. :) And you can always add additional related procs in later.

Charles


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob,
I have created service programs in the past, but most of them have

multiple

procedures or return data via the Prototype.

In this case, I am passing a list of parms, some will be used only as
input, and others only as output.

I just wanted to get an idea as to the advantages/disadvantages of each
method.
It is very unlikely (but not impossible :) ) that this program will be
called via SQL or a WEB program.

Thanks,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:20 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Traditionally I may store more than one exported subprocedure in a

single

service program. The subprocedures may not be related.

If you've never done a service program before it's a good time to get

the

experience.

If you think it would ever be cool to call the SP via sql by making it

a

stored procedure or a UDF then making it a SP is probably a good idea.

Any

questions as to what a stored procedure or a UDF are?


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From: Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Date: 11/28/2012 03:08 PM
Subject: Service Program or Stand Alone Program
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All,
I have a new program that I am creating.
This program will be called multiple times from at least 2 different
programs.
The program will accept a number of input parms and return data via

other

parms. It will not return any data via the PR.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of making it a Service Program

or a

Stand Alone Program?

Thanks,

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