Re: Activation group numbering

Hello Otto,

If I understand your question correctly, I think you may be misinterpreting
what an AG is. An AG is a "subset" of a job, it is not shared across jobs.

In your example each of the jobs have an AG named DRIVERAG - note, each of
the jobs - there is NOT an AG named DRIVERAG that is being shared between
the jobs.

Since an Activation Group is unique to the job, so you need not be concerned
that two jobs have the same activation group number/name.

HTH

Paul Tuohy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steffan, Otto (GE Consumer Finance)" <Otto.Steffan@xxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:56 AM
Subject: Activation group numbering


> Hello community,
> my question may be somewhat odd but I can't help myself.
>
> I have a server-based application consisting of a group of batch jobs.
There may be dozens of jobs in the group depending on transaction traffic; I
mention it for better illustration of the situation.
> All the jobs call the same RPGLE driver program at the very beginning that
runs in a named activation group say DRIVERAG; the driver pgm is in the call
stack all the life of job.
> What I worry about are the numbers of DRIVERAG activation groups in the
jobs. When I start the group of jobs, most have same actgrp number -
0000000048, but some have 0000000049. I thought that the system assigns a
unique number to every new activation group that it creates.
>
> Can this fact cause conflicts between the jobs what I have no idea about?
Or can I ignore it?
>
> I read ILE Concepts manual forwards backwards but didn't find the answer.
> We run V5R2.
> Thanks in advance for attention and help. Wish the community's common
knowledge knew the answers.
>
> Otto Steffan
>
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