Re: Service Program Question.

Nothing at all.

Although the compiler is giving a warning (an AS/400 would alarm me, if
there was a real problem :-), we never encountered any problem with it. We
just call everything we want, and in the end we do a RCLRSC and RCLACTGRP
*ELIGIBLE from another activation group (startup CL has another ACTGRP than
the actual program. This one callps then a procedure in a service program
which callps other procedures / functions.)

We were afraid in the beginning, too. We are no longer afraid. There's just
the "normal" close missing. I suggest OS/400 to handle this.

The whole application was written from scratch in ILE, its in production for
more than a year, and serves about 2.000 clients.

Best regards,

Anton Gombkötö

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Walter" <mwalter@netrax.net>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: Service Program Question.


> but what happens if your service program does not set LR on?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Gombkoto [SMTP:Gombkoetoe@ASsoft.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:57 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Service Program Question.
>
> > Suppose I had a service program that accessed a file that was also
> accessed
> > by the program that uses the service program.
> >
> > What kind of problems if any would this cause?
>
> We did this and had no additional problems to the problems that arose when
a
> called program accesses the same file as the calling program. There is the
> risk of locking the record in your own job, when two programs try to read
a
> record for update, with a lock. But that isn't new and is avoided by using
> the (N) - no lock -extension on the read operations when it's not
necessary
> to lock the record read.
>
> 0.02 Euro
> --
> Anton Gombkoto
>
>
>
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