Re: Persistent CGIDEV2 problem

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

I've never used persistent CGI, but if you're sure that a new instance of MAIN is activated, that would  indicate that a new instance of RPP is also being activated, given that they both run in the same activation group.

Nathan.


-----Original Message-----
> I am using CGIDEV2 (in persistent mode) for the first time and thought that
> I was making reasonable progress but have now run against a problem for
> which I need help, although I am sure that it has been solved many times
> before.
>
> My cgi program is RPGLE and is a request processing program (I will call it
> RPP) that handles 5250 or HTML/Javascript output.  It does not have any
> direct database access but calls a second program (I will call it MAIN).
> This handles business logic and reads records and passes them back to the
> RPP which displays them using 5250 or CGI. In CGI mode, the first call by
> RPP of MAIN works OK and the records are displayed by RPP using wrtsection.
> When I type something on my HTML display, the RPP is reactivated correctly
> so my Handle is presumably OK and I can read what I typed using
> ZhbGetInput.  However, when RPP calls MAIN again so that that program can
> retrieve the required records, a new instance of MAIN is called.  I am sure
> that in the first call of MAIN I did not set on LR and the mechanism works
> fine in 5250 mode  I imagine that this has something to do with activation
> groups.
>
> Can anyone help please?  I have tried compiling MAIN with the same named
> activation group and binding directory as RPP but this did not help.
>
> Many thanks