Re: Using activation groups

Walden Leverich wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> I'm not sure what the activation group name has to do with the environment
> (test, production, etc.) Activation groups are segments WITHIN a job. Even
> if you have an activation group named abc123 in two jobs there is nothing
> shared between them. If one of these activation groups was in a production
> user's job running the program from library PRDPGM and one was in a
> developers job running the same program out of PDM from library DEVPGM you
> would not have any problems.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> -Walden
> 

Depends how you create your programs. Using CPA Toolkit, you can
program to a treads model, and these threads are represented
on the AS/400 by multiple jobs, linked by a common activation group
name, but these jobs have a special job type.

Lo
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