Re: Compiling ILE COBOL programs -- COBOL400-L

By running *CALLER you do not lose ILE benefits but you do add to your list of things that can go wrong. *CALLER is pretty normal but from what you say about running everything standalone your situation is not normal.

Did you convert to IBM i from another platform that did not support program calls?

If you run "standalone" how is the application flow controlled?

Without knowing more about what you are actually doing it is difficult to advise.

Just FYI - You could have dealt with the commitment control issue by changing the commitment scope to job level. ILE can be simple but you need to know the potential pitfalls - and for COBOL there are more than for RPG!

On Mar 1, 2021, at 1:13 PM, Rod Verity <rod_verity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have converted all our OPM COBOL programs to ILE. When we initially ran them after compile as ILE, they all worked, but we are questioning if we have the right parameters for activation group. All the CICS programs are compiled with Activation Group of QILE. All of the batch programs are compiled with Activation Group *CALLER. We are wondering if the *CALLER programs are actually reverting to an OPM default activation group and if so, are we losing the benefits of ILE. All of our programs are standalone. We never group programs together so we want to do the same in ILE(at least we think we do). When any of our batch programs were not compiled as *CALLER, the job running these programs abended when doing a SQL COMMIT because it thinks commitment control has not been started. If we recompile these same programs as *CALLER then COMMIT works.

I tried compiling one program that called multiple other programs as *NEW but this did not work either. When I looked at the job running, it said it was using *DFTACTGRP.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone has about the Activation Groups.

Rod

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