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

Pascal,

I'd be willing to be that's it's normal behavior.

You'd pay a huge performance penalty if the system resolved the service program's location for every
call to a procedure in the service program.

Heck, the system doesn't re-resolve the location of a *PGM on a dynamic call. I know from
conversations with Barbara that that behavior is as designed. So if you have

CALL QCMDEXEC('ADDLIBLE MYLIB *FIRST')
CALL MYPGM
CALL QCMDEXEC('ADDLIBLE MYNEWLIB *FIRST')
CALL MYPGM

If MYPGM is in both MYLIB and MYNEWLIB, both calls to MYPGM will run MYLIB/MYPGM.

HTH,
Charles

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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

Pascal Bellerose
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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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Subject: Re: Rép. : [SPAM] Re: Service program not using LIBL

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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