Re: Activation Group closes unexpectedly

You need to understand why it is happening.

Mixing ILE and OPM COBOL is a risky business (as you have discovered) if you don't understand the potential problems.

Simply put OPM and ILE COBOLL do not share a Run Unit.

The scope of the OPM run unit is from the first OPM COBOL program in the stack to the last one and encompasses any and all OPM programs (no matter what language) in between.

The scope of the IL:E COBOL run unit is thew Activation group. That means that running them as *CALLER is rarely a good idea. They are not designed to do that and should really run in a named AG.

That said - what you have probably done by switching the OPM program to ILE is to change which program is at the root of the Run Unit in QILE. I'm guessing it is this program that is now the anchor in the Run Unit. You may be able to fix the problem by changing the program to use the CONTINUE RUN UNIT option on the EXIT PROGRAM. That should fix it - but you really need to understand what you are doing here. You (i.e. your company) have apparently been living dangerously for a while. It is time to engineer this thing properly.

This part of the docs shows a variety of scenarios and shows the effect of various options. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzase/cblrtnexmp.htm <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzase/cblrtnexmp.htm>

Hope this helps.


Jon

P.S. We should move this discussion to the COBOL list if you need to discuss further or David will shout at us!

On Aug 14, 2020, at 5:44 PM, Vinay Gavankar <vinaygav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
We have a batch job where the initial program is an OPM Cobol program,
which calls a variety of OPM and ILE programs. Some of the ILE programs use
*CALLER AG whereas some use QILE AG.
The batch job environment was 'stable', meaning looking at the job, it
would have only 2 Activation Groups - DFTACTGRP and QILE. As none of the
programs is 'closing', the number of open files would be a constant.
Yesterday, one of Cobol OPM programs was changed to CBLLE with QILE AG, and
now the QILE group keeps on closing and recreating (the AG number keeps on
incrementing), which also leads to files closing and reopening, which has
given a HUGE performance hit.
Any ideas why this could be happening? Do we need to go back to OPM or
changing the AG to *CALLER might work? The program is called from the
initial OPM program.
I know we need to do major overhaul on the AG, but I am looking for a quick
solution.
TIA
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