RE: More ILE 101

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 21:57, Joe Pluta wrote:
> So, do I have problems when I do that with a service program?  When two
> jobs call the same service program, I assume they have their own storage
> for variables, right?  If I declare a bunch of variables in the global
> section of a procedure, they're not shared between jobs, are they?

As usual, the answer is "it depends". :-)

If you create the service programs with ACTGRP(*CALLER), then each time
the service program is 'activated' within a job, it will run inside the
calling activation group.  If you have fifty program using *NEW that
activate the service program, then there will be fifty copys of the
service program running.

On the other hand, if you create the service program with a named
activation group, then the service program only gets activated once, in
the activation group that you specified.  This could get confusing if
the name was not unique and ran in an activation group used by a bunch
of other objects: to keep it simple, when I use a named activation group
for a service program I try to make that name unique.  This means now
that regardless of how many "copys" of the service program I need, they
will run in one activation group.  This allows file states, global
variable states and values, etc. to be accessible from seemingly
multiple locations. 

Joel
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