RE: Rép. : [SPAM] Re: Service program not using LIBL -- RPG400-L

This is just my opinion, but if you regularly require a RCLRSC or RCLACTGRP
then there is something wrong with your coding. Personally I have never
needed to do either in a production process. I could see where a
program/process may execute once everytime a user signs on or enters an
application for the first time. In this case I would use a *NEW activation
group, thus the activation group is reclaimed automatically.

Duane Christen

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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:47 AM
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Subject: Rép. : [SPAM] Re: Service program not using LIBL

A good one David,
We are doing exactly the same here and I'm tired of the paradigm that
say that we should always do a RCLRSC when exiting an RPG PGM.

I asked to our old timers and the only explanation I got, is that this
programming technique was introduced in RPGIII and was never removed
even though new soft we develop are now completely ILE.
There are still some old programs from RPGIII and S36 remaining our
framework, but the new ones should, in my opinion get rid of those
RCLRSC and use another programming concept. But that's where
I'm stuck
and got nowhere to go. It's hard to push a concept that you
don't even
know.

If anyone knows which programming technique we should use instead of
RCLRSC in an environment using ILE, RPGIII and S36, please
feel free to
provide us some answers!!!

Thx

Pascal Bellerose
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Cascades Canada inc.
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Le 11 Octobre, 2007 à 03:19, "David Foxwell"

<david.foxwell@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
I was wondering if anyone knew of a dummy's guide to this sort of
thing.

In my company we have kept all our old RPGIII. Instead of converting
the
sources, we have encapsulated them whenever needed by an RPGIV.
All our programs are compiled with ACTGRP(*CALLER) and we use RCLRSC
systematically in the CLP that call our RPGLE.

RCLRSC and its different parmeters is difficult to understand and
sometimes
doesn't do what we expected (or hoped).

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From: "Scott Klement" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: Service program not using LIBL

It's only *ELIGIBLE that's not recommended. There's nothing wrong

with

RCLACTGRP in general -- though IMHO, you should only use it on
activation groups that *you* created. For example, I personally

would

never recommend using RCLACTGRP QILE in a production program. But,
RCLACTGRP KLEMACC1 (which is short for 'Klements Accounting') I

wouldn't

have a problem with, since it's unlikely to be used by any software

that

my company didn't develop.

Lim Hock-Chai wrote:

Sorry, RCLACTGRP is what I meant. I've heard some of the experts

said

that RCLACTGRP is, sometime, unpredictable. I couldn't

remember if
that

statement only apply to RCLACTGRP ACTGRP(*ELIGIBLE) only or just
RCLACTGRP in general. Sorry if I miss-stated this.

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