RE: I hate Activation Groups....

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's exactly why they're more or less forbidden.  Management decided that
it was easier to insure that it would never happen, than trying to teach
people how to avoid the cursor surprise.  It's the same reasoning that
forbids any new techniques on the basis that no one will understand them.

Kind of ties in with your "good enough" rant.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon.Paris@hal.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@hal.it]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: I hate Activation Groups....
> 
> 

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> 
>  >> shared ODPs more or less forbidden by shop standard
> 
> This is an interesting remark.  One of the reasons given for 
> making shared
> ODPs verboten are the problems caused by "accidentally" 
> repositioning the
> DB cursor because of a failure to override to share *NO.  AGs 
> really help
> in this in that the ODP is only shared (by default) within 
> the AG.  This
> makes it much easier to develop apps that "jump sideways" 
> between different
> sub-applications.
> 
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