Re: A different kind of persistence?

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dane Cox wrote:
> 
> Wow, thanks everybody for the information.  This has been quite
> educational!  I do have one more observation/question if you'll bear
> with me a little longer...
> 
> Let's take this scenario one step further and say that I have a second
> RPGLE 'main' program that is bound to the same 'nomain' module exactly
> the same way as the first and that the program is called from the same
> 'batch' job.  It is also compiled with the same options as the first.
> In other words, same everything except program name (and likely
> different internal functionality).
> 
> Does this second program create a different 'instance' of the module for
> its own use, or will it use the one that is already resident in the AG?
> 

That's called "bind by copy".  Each program will have a separate
instance of the module.  To get two programs to share the same instance
of the module, the module has to be in a service program either in a
named AG or in *CALLER where both callers are in the same AG.