Re: How to get called program to write records to physical file member.

On 29/04/2010, at 4:37 PM, David FOXWELL wrote:

When would it be advisable to explicitly compile a program to run in the default activation group, particularly when named activation groups are being used?

Simple answer is NEVER. The only use for the default activation group is when you want to use RPG IV syntax but have everything else (mostly) behave like the OPM environment. That is no ILE in which case I would say what's the point?

Why not systematically compile so that the program runs in the same group as the caller?

That's what you should generally be doing. One place to start is main entry programs given either a named activation group or *NEW, everything called by it as *CALLER. There are a few instances where certain programs or service programs should be in a private named activation group.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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