Method and apparatus for remote object code inclusion

In a computer linkage editor for editing an input stream comprising one or more object modules and one or more include statements into an executable load module, each of said include statements directing the replacement of the statement with the contents of an object module specified by the statement, apparatus for processing said include statements, comprising:

• means for scanning said input stream for include statements specifying object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
• means responsive to the detection of an include statement specifying an object module for adding an entry for said object module to an object module list;
• means for scanning said object module list for entries for object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
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• in response to detecting an entry for an object module resident at a non-connected network location, establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining said object module via said connection.

A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for operating a computer linkage editor to process one or more include statements in an input stream on a local system, said linkage editor editing said input stream into an executable load module, each of said include statements directing the replacement of the statement with the contents of an object module specified by the statement, said method steps comprising:

• scanning said input stream for include statements specifying object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
• in response to detecting an include statement specifying an object module, adding an entry for said object module to an object module list;
• scanning said object module list for object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
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• in response to detecting an entry for an object module resident at a non-connected network location, establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining said object module via said connection.

In a computer linkage editor for editing an input stream comprising one or more include statements into an executable load module, each of said include statements directing the replacement of the statement with the contents of an object module specified by the statement, said linkage editor also receiving as input one or more library definition statements, each of which specifies an object module library containing one or more object modules, a method of operating said linkage editor to process said include statements, comprising the steps of:

• examining each of said library definition statements to determine whether the library definition statement specifies an object module library resident at a non-connected network location;
• in response to detecting an library definition statement specifying an object module library resident at a non-connected network location, establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining a list of the contents of said object module library via said connection;
• scanning said input stream for include statements specifying object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
• and
• in response to detecting an include statement specifying an object module resident at a non-connected network location, establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining said object module via said connection.

In a computer linkage editor for editing an input stream comprising one or more object modules and one or more include statements into an executable load module, each of said include statements directing the replacement of the statement with the contents of an object module specified by the statement, said linkage editor also receiving as input one or more library definition statements, each of which specifies an object module library containing one or more object modules, apparatus for processing said include statements, comprising:

• means for examining each of said library definition statements to determine whether the library definition statement specifies an object module library resident at a non-connected network location;
• means responsive to detecting an library definition statement specifying an object module library resident at a non-connected network location for establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining a list of the contents of said object module library via said connection;
• means for scanning said input stream for include statements specifying object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
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• means responsive to the detection of an include statement specifying an object module resident at a non-connected network location for establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining said object module via said connection.

A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for operating a computer linkage editor to process one or more include statements in an input stream on a local system, said linkage editor editing said input stream into an executable load module, each of said include statements directing the replacement of the statement with the contents of an object module specified by the statement, said linkage editor also receives as input one or more library definition statements, each of which specifies a library containing one or more object modules, said method steps comprising:

• examining each of said library definition statements to determine whether the statement specifies an object module library resident at a non-connected network location;
• in response to detecting an library definition statement specifying an object module library resident at a non-connected network location, establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining a list of the contents of said object module library via said connection;
• scanning said input stream for include statements specifying object modules resident at non-connected network locations;
• and
• in response to detecting an include statement specifying an object module resident at a non-connected network location, establishing a connection with said network location and obtaining said object module via said connection.