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The biggest advantage I know of for a final call closing files is that you
can later use the same program in a series of other calls. i.e., Should
the need arise, you can take this program and call it from a command line
(perhaps for debugging purposes, etc.) or you can call it in a series of
programs and know your resources won't be tied up.

Regarding statically binding the calls by converting to ILE. I would have
to agree with Mark. That's never a bad concept on itself. But a lot of
things need to be checked.

I would like to point out one thing about program calls. The first time a
dynamic call is made, the program has to resolve the location of the
program object and code to be executed. However, on subsequent calls, the
system retains a pointer to the routine. Hence, repeated calls (after the
first one) are now effectively bound to the calling program. This binding
remains in effect until the run unit ends. It's been too long, but I
think you can also break the binding by using a CANCEL statement.


cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/03/2012 10:54:16 AM:

----- Message from "Stone, Joel" <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 3
Oct 2012 14:53:39 +0000 -----

To:

"'COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400'" <cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

Re: [COBOL400-L] COBOL ILE primer

Btw, what is the proper way to do this?

Can I simply open the files once using a first-time-thru flag, and
then never close the files?

Or is it better to come thru one last time to close the files?



-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobol400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stone, Joel
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:47 AM
To: 'COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400'
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] COBOL ILE primer

This helped - I had done this on one of the called pgms but another
was opening the same file every time. This did speed things up
dramatically!



Thanks!!



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