Comments on: Modules and Program Dependancies

By: bvining

bvining — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:46:25 +0000

If you are interested in learning how to find where the module is used, and get a taste of system APIs at the same time, you may want to check out a series of articles I wrote. From here look for the article entitled Module, Module, Who's Got My Module. That article is the first of a series covering the topic. Bruce Vining

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:43:57 +0000

When the question is “How programs have this module bound into them?”, the correct answer ought to be “One.”

If a module is being bound into multiple programs, it should be created as a service program. It shouldn’t be bound into anything else.

Tom

By: vatchy

vatchy — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:06:37 +0000

This might be a partial answer. Use the command DspPgmRef. The best way, in my experience, to use this command is this:

SBMJOB CMD(DSPPGMREF PGM(*ALL/*ALL) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(QGPL/PGMREF))

This will build the database file QGPL/PGMREF with all of the program references for all of the programs on your system. It will take quite a while to run. After it is finished, you can query the file for the service program name in the field WHFNAM. It does not list the modules but it does list the service programs where the module resides.

By: lesliel

lesliel — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:37:30 +0000

We use Hawkeye’s Pathfinder. I would think there are probably several packages that would provide that kind of cross reference data. And I wonder whether there are any OS400 system catalog files for members?