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

For example: You want to load another version of the program that is in
another library... That'S exactly my case and I think this thread has
gone way too far...

Could we just get back to the subject?

Is it a normal behavior? (please read my first post)
If not is there a PTF tha twould solve the problem? Or do we have to
start using activations groups?

Thanks

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Le 11 Octobre, 2007 à 14:14, "Christen, Duane J."

<dchristen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
Scott;

Why would you need to unload service programs from memory?

I can't think of a reason to reclaim an activation group. I'm not
saying
that there isn't a reason, and that using RCLACTGRP is always wrong,
but if
it is being used all the time then I would beleave that something is
wrong
with the process which requires the cleanup.

Duane Christen

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Why do you say that requiring a RCLACTGRP means there's
something wrong
with your coding?

Granted, there are other ways to accomplish the same things
-- but the
fact that you choose to use activation groups instead of other
alternatives shouldn't mean that something is WRONG. It's
just a choice.

In my opinion, if you always use the SAME value for the ACTGRP
parameter, rather than using the right one for the purpose at hand,
that's a symptom that indicates that something is wrong with your
coding. But using RCLACTGRP? That doesn't mean anything --
unless of
course you're using it incorrectly.

If you have an application that consists of 10 programs/srvpgms, and

these programs need to all be loaded into memory at once, and all
calling back & forth between each other rapidly, but you need
to unload
them all from memory at certain times of the day... why not use
RCLACTGRP to accomplish that? Assuming you're not doing something
that's potentially harmful (such as loading programs in the default
activation group, or reclaiming QILE, or reclaiming
*ELIGIBLE) then why
is it bad coding to use RCLACTGRP?


Christen, Duane J. wrote:

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.

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