Re: Pointer Error -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Pointer Error
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:44:16 -0500
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On 1/12/2012 4:26 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

2b) Program A (OPM) calls Program B (ILE) which is in a *NEW
activation group (or any AG that is destroyed prior to A calling B
again). The pointer to B is resolved on first call, if the AG
disappears then the second call will fail as there was nothing to
tell A that it needed to re-resolve the pointer.

Jon, this scenario doesn't cause an error. (I didn't think it should, but I tried it just in case.) It looks like the resolved system pointer to the program is not related to the called program's activation group.

What doesn't work is when a program has a link to a _service program_ and the service program's activation group ends between calls from the program to the service program.

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