RE: Recursive Calls

In cases like this, where folks can go from one screen to another (only two
pgms), we add a parameter with the name of the calling program.  So if
they're in PGM A, go to PGM B, and then hit a key to go back to PGM A, we
check that parameter.  If it's PGM A, we simply "emulate" the user
cancelling out of the program.

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Zylka [mailto:mzylka@netpath.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 10:38 PM
> To: Midrange List
> Subject: Recursive Calls
> 
> 
> 
> I'm curious about how most people handle possible recursive calling
> situations.
> We're running V4R1 and coding in RPG/ILE.  We have a 
> situation where program
> A
> is called from a menu.  Program A creates a workorder and 
> then calls Program
> B,
> the workorder maintenance program.  From the workorder 
> maintenance program,
> one can use F6 to create another workorder, thus calling Program A.
> 
> So, the questions:  When Program A calls Program B, can I 
> remove it from the
> program stack?  Can Program B remove it from the stack when 
> it realizes
> that Program A needs to be called?  If program B can remove 
> Program A from
> the stack, what happens when Program B ends and Program A is no longer
> there to go back to?  If any of this can be done, which 
> manual outlines how
> this is done?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Marc Zylka ( mzylka@netpath.net )
> 
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