RE: Activation Groups 102, the plot thickens....

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Smith, Nelson wrote:
>
> I agree that *CALLER would be preferable, but when the preponderance of
> existing programs are still running in OPM, *CALLER just does not work.
> Strange things occur and I get phone calls in the night. Due to the number
> of override problems, etc, I cannot safely use *CALLER without carefully
> tracing through every single job that might use the service programs. Since
> the service programs have no way of knowing who will call them, we had to
> put them in their own AG.

I'll agree with Scott.  As a general rule, *CALLER should always be used
with a service programs.  This does NOT mean that *CALLER should be
used EVERYWHERE, however.

Since you can't call a service program from an OPM program, using *CALLER
should be fine.