Re: QCMDEXC and activation groups

Alan,

QCMDEXC itself runs in the default activation group.  However, any commands that it runs will be run as if run from the prior call stack entry -- in other words, if QCMDEXC had been called from an ILE activation group, the command you run will also be in that activation group.

This is critical for stuff like OVRDBF since it defaults to OVRSCOPE(*ACTGRPDFN), meaning that the override will apply to the activation group it was run from.

Likewise, if you write your own command "MYCMD" and its CPP has ACTGRP(*CALLER), you could run it via QCMDEXC, and MYCMD's CPP would be in the same activation group as QCMDEXC had been called from.

-SK


On 2/23/2021 4:02 PM, Alan Cassidy wrote:

Discussion came up at work.

My understanding is that QCMDEXC runs as if it at the same call level as the program that calls it. Do I remember correctly? So long since I worked that stuff.

It obviously runs in the same job as the program (even if it runs a SBMJOB), but somebody at work said it runs in the default activation group, "because commands run in the default AG".

I don't think so, but is that true? Maybe it is for the CPP program that executes QCMDEXC, but I would think that a user command, for example, runs in the activation group of its command processing program.

--Alan