Re: Service program signatures, and how to avoid unnecessarily recompiling programs that call service programs

On 9/13/2017 2:08 PM, Alan Campin wrote:

As long as the interface has not changed, you will not need to
recompile.

You need to create a current listing your procedures. then when you
add a new procedure, your current becomes your previous and your new
current is at the top.

As long as new procedures are added to the end of the list of procedures, and you specify a constant signature in the binder source, you don't need to recompile programs that reference the service program.

As I understand it, procedures are reference by their relative location in the service program.

The only time you would have to specify multiple PGMLVL's in binder source is if you remove, or reorder, the procedures that are specified.

I have service programs that have the same signature since they were originally written. We always add new procedures at the end, and the programs that use the service programs never have to be recompiled.

david