Re: Question about service programs

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,

You cannot share SRVPGMs between different jobs, interactive and/or batch.

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 30-7-2008 at 13:28 Charles St-Laurent wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I wonder if what I want to do is possible on iSeries (V5R4).
>
> I want to load many service programs in a kind of shared memory and then
use
> the loaded service programs from interactive or batch jobs, so the loaded
> programs won't be loaded each time I start a new batch or interactive job
that wants to use them.
> For example:
>
> 1) I load all my service programs once and initialize them correctly
> 2a) I submit a job and I want the submitted job to use the loaded service
> programs that have been loaded previously and passing them parameters
> 2b) I launch an interactive job and I want this interactive job to use
> service programs that have been loaded previously and passing them
parameters
> I read about activation groups. Activation groups are effective within the
> same job. But in my case, I also want to use persistent programs between
> jobs (each batch job is a new job and I don't want my service programs to
be
> allocated/released each time). I want my batch jobs to execute previously
> loaded service programs, each time with different parameter values.