Re: Activation group quandaries

On 7/24/2013 5:42 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

David said that the SRVPGM is the one calling the *NEW PGM and I
read it as saying that it was running in QILE and assumed it was
specified to do so.

The number of copies of the SRVPGM will depend upon its AG
attribute. If it is specified as QILE - then as long as there is an
active invocation of the SRVPGM then it will be used. There would
however be a new copy created if the SRVPGM had an AG attribute of
*CALLER.

The SRVPGM is compiled with activation group *CALLER. The external program has activation group *NEW.

When the SRVPGM is running it is in activation group QILE.

When the service program calls the external program I would expect it to create a new activation group. Subsequent invocations of a service program procedure, from the external program, would (I think) load a new copy of the SRVPGM because we are now operating in a *NEW activation group.

david

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