Re: OVRDBF in ILE (was: diff btw Procedures and Routines)

Hi Scott -

>On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Ken Sims wrote:
> >
> > Reasonable only if you use programs for menus.  We don't, we use display
> > file type *MENUs.  However only in a few special cases are there *NEW
> > programs with another *NEW program downstream, and that is where the called
> > program is not called repeatedly, it is a program that is both a menu
> > option and called by a function key from another program.
> >
>
>I'm sorry, but it's completely reasonable to have the first program called
>by a menu be *NEW, and anything that it calls be *CALLER.
>
>Since you seem very sure that *NEW is hurting performance, I did some
>benchmarks.   Please keep in mind that I work for a small company, and our
>AS/400s are at the low-end of the performance spectrum:

Huh??????????????  Go back and re-read what I said.  I did *NOT* say that
only in a few special cases do we use *NEW.  We use a LOT of *NEW.  I said
only in a few special cases do we use *NEW where that program is called by
another program that is already running in a *NEW activation group.

Ken
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