Re: Persistent CGIDEV2 problem

["Rob Dixon" <robertsdixon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nathan,

I am sure that a new instance of MAIN is activated but equally sure that the
existing instance of RPP is re-used.  In RPP, all my variables are correct,
but in MAIN, my switch to show that it has already been initialised, is OFF
on the second call and all the variables need initialising.

It is quite likely that I don't really understand activation groups as I
have never had a need for them before.  I will spend more time on these
unless someone comes up with a better idea.

Many thanks

Rob

2009/1/6 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
>
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