Re: RPG ILE Problems (Activation Groups)

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara,

Thanks for the correction...

So having a *SRVPGM run in the DAG via ACTGRP(*CALLER) is a bad idea...

But is it a good/bad/indifferent idea to have a ILE *PGM
[DFTACTGRP(*NO)] run in the DAG [via ACTGRP(*CALLER)]?

Charles

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Charles, what you describe is true for a _service_program_, but not for
> a program.
>
> When an ILE *CALLER _program_ was running in the DAG and then a RCLRSC
> is done, the programs static storage is not released, but it is
> (somehow) marked for reinitialization.  When the program is called
> again, all its static storage is reinitialized.
>
> When an ILE *CALLER _service_program_ was running in the DAG and then a
> RCLRSC is done, the service program's static storage is not released,
> and it is not marked for reinitialization.  When a procedure in the
> service program is called again, all its static storage is the same as
> before the RCLRSC.