Re: Starting to use ILE. Was: How to best identify if applications are running in OPM mode?

[Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James -

On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:15:01 -0800, "James H. H. Lampert"
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmm. I seem to recall at least one personal experience with Bad Things
> Happening when certain ILE-only constructs were back-doored into
> *DFTACTGRP by using *CALLER.

I run into that occasionally in testing, but it doesn't happen in
production.

> And what happens if you need a program that would behave badly in
> *DFTACTGRP to terminate-but-stay-activated (either so it can pick up
> where it left off, or so multiple calls in a batch job don't create
> separate spool files)? Named activation groups can be most helpful in
> such situations.

In our main billing system (which is where my responsibility lies), I
don't allow any such badly behaved programs.  They can either play
nicely with others or they can go stand in the corner!

Ken
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