Re: Open/close files in an RPG module

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Wilt wrote:
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> I worded that poorly.
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> On the other hand, I think you may have to <grin>.

Ya, I should have said "the main procedure of the module", rather than 
just "the main procedure".  I think the term "main procedure" is easily 
confused with "program entry procedure".  I guess "cycle procedure" 
would have been a better term than "main procedure" for the non-P-spec 
procedure in RPG modules.  Darn hindsight.

What I should have said was: Any RPG module that doesn't have "NOMAIN" 
has its own main procedure, its own RPG cycle, and its own LR.  Within a 
module, if that module's main procedure returns with LR on, the files 
defined in that module will be closed.

In V6R1 this changes in two possible ways.  1) A module can be defined 
to have a non-cycle main procedure, that can only be a program-entry 
procedure (MAIN keyword).  2) A procedure can have its own local files; 
even if it's a cycle module, the local files have their own rules about 
when they get closed, nothing to do with LR: automatic files get closed 
when the procedure returns, and static files never get closed.