Re: RPG compiled with ACTGRP(*NEW)

Barbara Morris of IBM's RPG compiler team (and others) has stated many
times that rclactgrp *eligible is a very bad idea in production code.

In a development environment, it's ok...but her suggestion is to
simply sign off and back on instead.

There's a reason it's not listed as an option when you prompt the
RCLACTGRP command.


HTH,
Charles

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:15 AM, David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks all, and thanks for reminding me of that book.

I was asking as I was considering *NEW instead of a named group, as I don't know the name of the group to reclaim after execution. I stumbled across rclactgrp *eligible that seems to do what I need.

Just one thing, the help after execution of rclactgrp *eligible states :

ID message . . . . . . :   CPC0912
...  The activation groups were deleted because they were not active and the job was not in debug mode..

However, I am in debug mode. Am I misunderstanding something here?

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David,

From SG24-5402-00 Page 90

Who knew you could do that with RPG IV?

"A *NEW activation group is completely deleted when the
program ends abnormally or when it returns to its caller
(even without the LR indicator turned on).  This is important
when calling a program recursively and also when you test a
new program.  You do not need to sign off or use an RCLACTGRP
command to end the activation group as youwould have to with
a named activation group."


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
Ext. 4777



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Hi,

PGM A compiled with ACTGRP(A) calls PGM B compiled with ACTGRP(*NEW);

Does *INLR have to be *ON in PGM B so that  its activation
group disappears on returning to PGM A?
IF it ends with RETURN, is the activation group still alive?

Thanks.
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