Re: RPG ILE Problems (Activation Groups)

Hi Jeff -

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:39:31 -0800 (PST), Jeff Young
<cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I normally do is to add a parm to my service program to indicate when to
close the file(s).
If the value is not set to close, I test if the file(s) are not open, and open
them.
When the calling program is finished processing, I call the service program with
a close flag and it then closes all of its files.
Normally, I make all parms other than the close flag optional so that I do not
need to pass dummy values when calling it to close the files.

Is this really a service program? I wonder because you say that you
call the service program. But service programs don't get called;
procedures within them do. If it is a service program, why don't you
have a separate close procedure?

(For a regular program that is called repeatedly, I have a standard of
calling it with no parameters to shut it down.)

Ken
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