Re: Reclaiming Activation Groups.

Hi, Bryce:

See embedded replies below.

Mark

> Bryce Martin wrote:

I have a question about reclaiming an activation group on a job other than my own.

Can it be done?

Yes, but I think you would be "solving the wrong problem" with this approach. (see below)

Say I have a program that I wrote that is using a named activation group. And then I make a change to that program during the day and I need the users to pick up this change. The only way to do this is to reclaim the activation group in their job. But the user doesn't have command line access to do this, and that isn't something you want to be telling the users to do. It isn't very user friendly. So what I'm wondering is... Can I write a program to reclaim the activation group across all the jobs so that when the user calls the program the next time then it will get the right version? How do other's handle this situation.

My project structure looks like this...

OPM Program calls RPGLE Program that has a named Activation Group --> RPGLE Pgm calls modules in a service program. --> Module in Service Program calls RPGLE Pgm with Activation *New (recursive BOM)

If I change the recursive BOM program and recompile I don't see the changes until I reclaim activation group of the RPGLE Pgm that is in the Named activation group.

With ACTGRP(*NEW), that program should be automatically deactivated and the *NEW AG gets reclaimed whenever that program returns.

This suggests the true cause of this problem. See my post of 2/20/2009 in the RPG400-L mailing list, subject "Re: Problem with duplicated program names". Here is a link to this thread:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200902/msg00256.html

Any modules in the service program that call the "recursive BOM" program have already resolved a pointer to that program, and so even after you replaced that program, the *SRVPGM will continue to call the original *PGM, using the pointer it had previously resolved.

Change the caller(s), per the thread mentioned above, and I believe this issue will be resolved.

I hope this is clear enough.

Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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