size of activation group

["Simonse, Arco \(CMK\)" <ArcoSimonse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,


I want to separate several serviceprograms that are often used by our
applications. These srvpgms do very common things, like getting customer
info, article coding info, stock info, selection subfile windows, etc.
Until now I always compiled these serviceprograms with ACTGRP *CALLER,
and the applications that use these servicepgms are always compiled with
*NEW or sometimes in a named ACTGRP. There are about 150 applications
that often use parts of these 60 serviceprograms. So far so good. 

I realize that the dowside of this approach is that every time an
application starts that was compiled with ACTGRP *NEW, it will
initialize the almost same bundle of serviceprograms that were used in
the previous executed applications.
So what I want to do is to put these serviceprograms in a separate named
activation group, for example COMMONAG.. Then resources for these
serviceprograms are initialized at once and remain available for all
applications that are executed later.

The serviceprograms are optimized *FULL and about 700 - 900 Kb each.
Total serviceprogram size is 48 Mb. Static storage is 11 Mb.

My questions:

1) Does it cause problems when I keep this COMMONAG during the job's
life with this static storage of 11 Mb and of course the ODPs for about
40 files loaded ?

2) Do activation groups have a size limit ?

3) Are there any other problems that I do not foresee?

Any help would be appreciated.

Arco Simonse

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