Re: Using activation groups

Jon,

I meant calls made directly from a command line.  The only ones available here 
are 
provided by qcmd and pdm.  It sounds like your changes will address this 
situation.  We 
are just trying to avoid running in the default activation group when a program 
is *CALLER 
and called from a command line.  It sounds like we will need to put some 
standard code 
in all program entry procedures that will switch to a named/new activation 
group if the caller 
was using the default activation group.  We will be going to V4R1 this month 
but are 
considering skipping V4R1 and waiting for V4R2.

Hopefully the enhancement fixes our problem.  We did a lot of work setting up 
our standards 
and explaining the environment to our programmers.  We also promised to fix our 
current 
test/production limitations.  I sure don't want to go back to the drawing board.

Thanks for your help

David Morris

>>> Jon Paris <paris@ca.ibm.com> 01/15 5:39 PM >>>
David - maybe it's too late in the day but I'm not sure I understand what you
mean by the following statement - or exactly what you are trying to achieve.

>> "We didn't think about QCMD and PDM.  Quite a bit of
testing goes on where calls are made from these programs." <<

Using the base program in a menu chain as the program that names the AG and
having the rest of the chain specify *CALLER is what I'd normally recommend.
If you can elaborate on what your problems are I may be able to help more.  Do
you mean that when you're testing you call the program from the command line
(or PDM) - the more I think about it the more I think that's what you meant.
If you do, then using a named AG for all programs would probably work best.  In
V4R2 they are allowing you to change the AG name of any program running in a
named AG - perhaps that will help?

Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com 
Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414

                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                             
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