RE: Activation Groups 102, the plot thickens....

Thanks, everyone, for your input!

I never thought I would mix OPM and ILE, but ILE has finally become
predominant enough that the only way to prevent mixing them would be to
re-write ILE pgms as OPM!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Buck Calabro
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:06 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Activation Groups 102, the plot thickens....
>
>
> Phil wondered:
>
> >This is a batch job.
> >
> >I have OPM pgm A, which does
> >overrides, and calls OPM
> >pgm B.
> >
> >If I convert OPM pgm B to
> >ILE pgm B, should I use AG
> >*CALLER to ensure the overrides
> >remain visible to the
> >ILE pgm?
>
> It depends.  All programs running in the same AG should be
> designed to share
> the same resources.  Conversely, if you pick an AG for a program,
> it should
> be designed to share resources with all other programs in that AG.
>
> So.  I would ordinarily advise against running ILE programs in the DAG
> because you can't reclaim their (shared) resources.  Remember that ILE
> programs (running in a named or *NEW activation group) inherit OPM issued
> overrides.
>
> >If ILE pgm B also calls ILE SRVPGM C,
> >which has AG *CALLER, will there be
> >any trouble the 2nd time it's
> >called within the same job?
>
> So they're all running in the DAG?  Well, you won't get the common
> activation mistake because you can't reclaim the DAG!  Aside from that, I
> can't think what trouble you might run into, but I don't
> personally ever run
> ILE programs in the default AG, so my experiences in this regard
> are limited
> to tinkering and testing other folks' scenarios.
>   --buck
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