RE: I hate Activation Groups....

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> If there was some mechanism to let the system know that the service
>> program has been unloaded, then the system would re-load it again when
>> the second call was made to the CL.

>There is a mechanism - delete the activation group that contains the CL
pgm.

I wonder if there are more than a half dozen programmers on this list who
use named AGs for production work.  By and large, the confusion at my
workplace over named AGs stems from people trying to use a new gizmo without
cracking the manual first. 

Named AGs give us granular control over anything that can be scoped to the
AG and not just the job.  The Big One is file opens with SHARE(*YES).  I
seriously doubt that anybody is using a named AG to segregate static
variables from other named AGs!

Given the simplistic environment that _most_ AS/400 programmers are
accustomed to (I'm excluding the half-dozen leading edge programmers), it
seems that using a single named AG will suffice.

Please, oh please correct me if I'm mistaken...

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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