RE: re. Access Groups and Threads

For a one shot program, *NEW is not too bad.  The benefits are that it
automatically cleans up behind itself.  The drawback is the overhead of
creating the activation group.

Where you don't want to use it is in any situation where it is called
repeatedly, like in a looping batch process or on a trigger program.  The
overhead of the building-running-deleting process can kill you.

I usually use QILE as the default for programs and *CALLER for service
programs.   I use a Named activation group only where I intentionally want
to take advantage of some of it capabilities, like scoping overrides.  

Small gotcha to note: If you want to do a RCLACTGRP on a named activation
group, you need to be out of it at time you run that command, i.e. back to
the program that called the program with a named activation group. It's also
highly recommended that you don't do a RCLACTGRP *ELIGIBLE in a program
because there's no telling what you are wiping out.  I only use it during
debugging sessions.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa.Abney@sensient-tech.com [SMTP:Lisa.Abney@sensient-tech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:16 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: re. Access Groups and Threads
> 
> 
> From John Taylor's post ...
> 
> <snip some stuff ...>
> 
> >For newbies - stick with *new. You'll never get confused by AG's that
> don't
> >get reclaimed, and you won't accidentally create two applications running
> in
> >the same named AG that were not designed to do so.
> 
> While I don't claim to know much at all about AG's, I have been to quite a
> few classes by quite a few different people who did seem to know a lot,
> and
> the rule I always heard was that, until you learn a lot more, always use
> QILE as the default activation group.  This puts everything in one group,
> rather than each job into a new group.
> 
> Can someone else that uses AG's comment on what John said about using
> *new?
> 
> 
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