Re: Eliminating *MODULES with IMPORT and EXPORT parms and replacing them with Service Programs -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Eliminating *MODULES with IMPORT and EXPORT parms and replacing them with Service Programs
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:07:51 -0400
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On 2011/4/13 11:06 AM, GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

...
Definitely undocumented. That's a good point for justifying why the PI
should be created. (I wonder if that was the reason behind IBM's change of
heart I alluded to in my original post?)
...

I don't think IBM ever particularly recommended using IMPORT and EXPORT as a way of "passing parameters". If I recall correctly, the V3R1 (pre-prototype) recommendation was to use CALLB and PARM to call the procedures in other modules.

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