Re: Call in ILERPG response time slow

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 00:17 10/23/1998 , Vanya Jovic wrote:
>>A word of warning though: Don't use ACTGRP(*CALLER)  if you're
>>executing the program by calling it from an OPM program and using bound
>>calls. Results will be "unpredictable". 
>
>       Pete, 
>
>       What did you mean by this. When ILE program runs in DAG2 results
>are very "predictable" and defined. Only "unwellcome" thing, I can think
>of, is that you cannot reclaim memory in DAG2 after ILE program is done.
>(but you can reset program and close ODPs). Don't start warr about Cobol
>run unit, pls. :)))))

When I attempted to execute ILE programs that use bound calls and 
ACTGRP(*CALLER) from OPM jobs (triggers), I had random errors in production 
caused by service programs not being found. These problems went away as soon as 
I specified a named activation group. Apparently some of the support required 
for object or pointer resolution is not always available. The programs will run 
successfully without creating an activation group most of the time, but are not 
reliable. I haven't tried this in a while (last time was at V3R1M0). Possibly 
there was a PTF that fixed this, but I've never seen anything that said it was 
now OK, and since my bad experience with it, I've always recommended against 
doing it.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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