Re: calling a program v using a SRVPGM

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes it does help.  Thank you.  I was misunderstanding what is a binding 
directory.  I was equating binding directory to directory, then 
directory to library, and concluding  that a library was not what I needed.

So Monday will be  "Learn about Binding Directories Day."

(And yes, there is a lot of terminology mismatch.  I learn slow.)


On 12/30/2018 11:27 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> There's a little bit of terminology mismatch, Booth, because you don't 
> just combine programs into a service program.  Each of the programs is 
> now a procedure within the service program.  One may indeed be called 
> pgmB, but it's no longer a program, it's a procedure.  If you left the 
> name of the procedure to be pgmB, then you would use EXTPROC(pgmB) on 
> your prototype; note the keyword EXTPROC, not EXTPGM.  Then in order 
> to bring that service program into ProgA, you would create a binding 
> directory with SRVPGM01 in it, and use that binding directory in the 
> CTL-OPT specification. Say you called the binding directory BNDDIR01, 
> then you add BNDDIR('BNDDIR01') in your CTL-OPT specification.
>
> Hope that helps!