RE: I hate Activation Groups....

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David!
Offhand, I'd say you've got the activation group thing upside down.
Generally, you want the RPG program to run in a named group and the service
program to run *CALLER.

The idea behind AGs is that you get finer control over your overrides than
without them.  Without AGs you can only scope an override to the job.  With
them, you can scope overrides to individual applications.  Specifically,
this comes in handy for OVRDBF SHARE(*YES)  So, normally I would suggest
that you have a very small number of named AGs, and that they roughly
coincide with your applications: AP, AR, GL, etc.

If you're saying to yourself "Hey!  We haven't any SHARE(*YES) overrides..."
then I humbly suggest that you have no need for anything other than a single
named AG: QILE.  Which simplifies your life considerably.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dmosley@dancik.com 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:58 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      I hate Activation Groups....
> 
> OK, here's the situation, and hopefully, someone can brief me on why this
> is happening...
> 
> I have a *SRVPGM with an assigned activation group, we'll save ACTGRP
> ('DAVE')..
> 
> Now, I have a normal RPGLE program, with an activation group of *CALLER,
> that calls the *SRVPGM.
> 
> And a CLP that calls the RPGLE, has a RCLACTGRP DAVE, and the end of it.
> 
> OK, here's what's happening.
> - - My first time calling the CLP --> RPGLE, is successful.  No problem.
> - - My second time calling it, I logs my off the system, with a MCH3402,
> message.
> 
> Message ID . . . . . . . . . :   MCH3402
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