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  3. November 2005

Re: Activation group *ENTMOD vs. *NEW in CRTPGM



Why does IBM has changed the default value for the activation group of
created programs from *NEW to *ENTMOD?
Good question. I know that a lot of people didn't like having *NEW as the default, but I'm not exactly sure why IBM changed it now after all of these releases. 



I've created my tools with default value for ACTGROUP. Until V5R3 this was
*NEW. Resources for those tools had been relaesed after the tool-programm
ended.  Now with *ENTMOD, resources are released when QILE ends. This
behaviour causes some problems when more than one tool-program is on the
call-stack or when a program ends abnormaly.


Here's what I did when I upgraded to V5R3:

    CHGCMDDFT CMD(CRTPGM) NEWDFT('ACTGRP(*NEW)')

Now, *NEW is the default again.

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