Re: override scope in a procedure

["Charles Wilt" <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara,

Thanks for the correction.

So do you have an example of where *CALLER would pose a problem for a program?

Or is an ILE program running in the default activation group via
*CALLER not so bad as long as no service programs are being used?

Charles

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Charles Wilt wrote:
> > ...
> > For example, RCLRSC doesn't correctly handle the resources of a ILE
> > program in the default activation group.  If I remember correctly, the
> > program's files get closed but the program remains active and as far
> > as the program knows, its files are still open.
>
> That's only true for service programs.  When a *CALLER _program_ was
> running in the default activation group, RCLRSC would cause the program
> to get reinitialized on the next call.
>
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