RE: Activation groups for beginners

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nelson,

There is no API I know of that allows you to specify the
activation group. It should be possible because IBM
supports *CALLER, which is not known until run time. If
I were asking IBM to add this I would ask them to add
it to the activate bound program API (QleActBndPgm).

David Morris

>>> NSmith@lincare.com 03/19/02 08:54AM >>>
What's the difference between this and a recompile?

Since a program compiled with *CALLER doesn't know what activation
group it
will be running in until execution time, there must be some way that
IBM has
of assigning that activation group dynamically.  Is there an API for
this?
or, could there be?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil [SMTP:sublime78ska@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:15 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: Activation groups for beginners
>
> Well, actually you can change the activation group with the UPDPGM
> command:
>
> UPDPGM PGM(PHILLIB/PRMORG01) MODULE(*NONE) ACTGRP(PHILAG)
>
> It creates a new program - the old one is moved to QRPLOBJ.
>
> If you call the pgm, don't reclaim the ag, change the ag with UPDPGM,
then
> call it again, both ag's will show in option 18 of wrkjob.