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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Application Development
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 17, 2023

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Program References Enhancement

I would like to be able to see the Procedure Names a Program or Service Program require.

I have a service program with 5 procedures defined in it. I can get a list of those procedures using DSPSRVPGM with DETAIL(*PROCEXP). This service program is entered into a binding directory.

I have a program that uses two of those 5 procedures in the above service program. That program is compiled and uses the above binding directory to locate the two procedures it needs and finds them in the service program.

I would like to be able to see [using a command with *OUTFILE or an SQL DB2 table] the procedure names that the program needs that are in that service program. DSPPGMREF allows me to see what service programs a program needs. However, it does not tell me the specific procedure names the program uses in the associated service program. That functionality would be very helpful.

Thank you.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jul 20, 2023


    Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I did not see the 5/24 reply. But I would like to state that the solution presented in the 5/24 reply [a SQL Service] would be fine. As long as I can identify the individual procedures used by the specific program, that is fine.


  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 20, 2023
    . Thank you for taking the time to submit your Idea. After careful consideration, we know that we cannot deliver your requested enhancement soon, so it is being declined.
  • Guest
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    |     May 24, 2023
    IBM is investigating potential solutions. Would an SQL service, similar to the following, provide the information that you want?

    Given the name of an object (this could be a *PGM or *SRVPGM), provide a list of the service programs this object binds to, and the names of the exports in that service program that are used to resolve the object's imports. This would be a new SQL service named something like PROGRAM_RESOLUTION_INFO and be used in an SQL query as follows:

    SELECT * FROM QSYS2.PROGRAM_RESOLUTION_INFO
    WHERE PGMNAME = 'HELLO'
    AND PGMLIB = 'MYLIB';

    The resulting table may look like this:

    PGMLIB PGMNAME IMPORTTYPE SRVPGMUSED IMPORTNAME
    ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------------------------
    MYLIB HELLO PROC QC2IO printf
    MYLIB HELLO DATA QC2UTIL1 _C_SIGALL_ctl_action
    MYLIB HELLO DATA QC2LOCAL _C_PSX_init_flag
    MYLIB HELLO PROC QLEAWI Q LLE leDefaultEh2
    MYLIB HELLO PROC QLEAWI Q LE leBdyEpilog2

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