RE: SRVPGM: USROPN file or not

["Smith, Nelson" <NSmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I understand correctly, if a program references a procedure in a service
program, on startup of the programs the references are resolved and this
causes the service program to be also be started up.  If the service program
has 20 files in it, without USROPN, all 20 files will get opened, even
though the procedure your program was using only referenced one (or even
none) of the files.

Therefore, I always use USROPN on the files and in each procedure that uses
a file, I put:

IF NOT %OPEN(Filename)
OPEN Filename
ENDIF

and then ignore the error messages you refer to below.  This way only the
files actually being used get opened WHEN they are used and then they stay
open for subsequent use as long as the activation group is alive.  I've had
no problems with this so far.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: marcin.drozdowski@big.pl [SMTP:marcin.drozdowski@big.pl]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:40 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      SRVPGM: USROPN file or not
>
> Procedure in my SRVPGM is called frequently, both from batch (server)
> and interactive jobs. RPGLE programs are running in named activation
> group.
> IMHO it's good idea _not_ to declare files in SRVPGM with USROPN, but
> compiler says: "Files should be closed explicitly when NOMAIN is
> specified on the Control specification".
> The message has severity 10 and SRVPGM is created.
> Will it have any bad influences?
>
> Thanks for advice.
> Marcin Drozdowski
>
>
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