Re: ILE questions: activation groups, rpg-cgi, classic web server.

Chris,

thanks for the reply.

question:  is QILE the "default activation group"?  or is it a named
activation group?

most of ILE remains a mystery to me, because I just haven't forced myself
to figure it out.  I know how to get them to compile, but I don't know what
it all means yet.

I'll get there eventually.

thanks again,

rick

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Richard,

If you use the default activation group, static binding and binding
directories are not
supported.  This also means CALLB and CALLP aren't supported, nor are
procedures (which are statically bound, hence unsupported by dftactgrp
(*yes)).

If you're doing a conversion, DFTACTGRP(*YES) lets you make your RPGIV
programs act like RPGIII programs, which means you can use CVTRPGSRC and
easily "upgrade" (if that's the right word) to RPGIV.

When using static binding, then you'll have to specify a named activiation
group, or
*NEW.  You can also use *CALLER to use the caller's activation group, but
if the
caller's activation group is the default activation group, static binding,
callp, callb, etc.
won't work.

What you use depends on what you want to do, or perhaps what functions you
need
support for...

I think RPGIV presents a lot of very powerful options, particularly with
prototyping
and binding, that we can take advantage of, but that requires using named
or
temporary new activation groups.

I don't think I'm knowledgeable enough yet to comment intelligently about
the
advantages of *NEW as opposed to QILE or a named group, but a lot of very
smart
people watch this list....maybe somebody will weigh in?

--Chris