RE: H ActGrp('QILE') vs H ActGrp(*caller)

["Sims, Ken" <KSIMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joel, et. al. -

>For a service program that you need to release
>all resources when it ends, *CALLER is a good
>choice, providing the calling program runs in a
>named activation group that ends when the program
>does.  If you have a lot of jobs running in QILE,
>you don't have the same cleanup options you would
>with a more restricted activation group.  Depends
>on your scoping requirements, though.  The important
>thing is that QILE is only a name for an activation
>group, it's not a system object.

If you want automatic cleanup, why use a named activation group at all???
Use *NEW for the outermost program and *CALLER for everything inside.  When
the outermost program ends, the system will automatically close any files
that were left open and destroy the activation group.

Personally I *NEVER* use named activation groups.  Getting back to the
H-spec copy members, I have three ... HNEW, HCALLER, and HSRVPGM.  The first
two are for *PGMs, specifying ACTGRP(*NEW) and ACTGRP(*CALLER) respectively.
The third is for service programs and specifies ACTGRP(*CALLER).

Ken
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