RE: A different kind of persistence?

Is it just me or did Rochester create a monster when they did Activation
Groups and the supporting systems attempted to support them as well as ILE?
This system used to be the easiest system in the world to program _for_
(granted programming on it was a bit ancient and continues to be) and other
systems while more complicated and difficult to use were harder to program
for but easier to program _on_. 
Oh well, maybe I should start writing shareware for the Palm Pilot.
-Bob


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On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:23 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: A different kind of persistence?

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 
> RCLACTGRP *ELIGIBLE
> ...is my most frequently used CL command while developing/testing code.
> I can key it in as one word now and rarely if ever misspell it.
> -Bob Cozzi
> 

I wouldn't use *ELIGIBLE in production code.  Notice that the command
doesn't show *ELIGIBLE anywhere except in the help?  The Info Center
says this:
   "Specifying ACTGRP(*ELIGIBLE) requires full knowledge of the job
environment. Otherwise, unpredictable results can occur."

But I don't even use it in development/test any more after a couple of
hair-tearing-out sessions trying to debug problems that were only caused
by my having done rclactgrp *eligible, and that got worse and worse as I
tried to fix something that wasn't broken.  I finally changed my PDM
option to just reclaim QILE; for me, it's quicker in the long run to
sign off and back on.

It does occasionally happen that I have some very complex things setup
and really really don't want to sign off, so I rclactgrp *eligible. 
Unfortunately, it seems that usually those complex setup things are the
very cases where *ELIGIBLE makes weird things happen so I eventually
have to sign off anyway (sigh).

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