Re: Clearly, I'm doing something wrong here (halt indicator issue)

[Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/21/2018 2:40 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

> Did the halt indicator somehow prevent LR from deactivating WTREZIP?

See steps 32 and 33 of The Detailed RPG Cycle:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzasd/pgmcycdtl.htm


> (WTREZIP is activation group QILE, and the CPP for the command it calls
> is activation group *NEW.) I'm sure there must be a better way for an
> RPG program to abend itself; the halt indicator was simply the easiest.

I'd send an escape message to *CALLER if I really wanted an abend.  An
alternative is to use a success/fail parameter to tell the CLP whether
the RPG fell over.  There are always data areas, *LDA, external switches
(U1-U8) but they are second class citizens in my opinion.