Re: program won't let go of file

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi, David:

DFTACTGRP solution
=================
Assuming all of these *PGMs are in fact running in the *DFTACTGRP, then 
you can just issue:

    RCLRSC    LVL(*)

in PGM1(CLP), right after the CALL to PGM2 returns to PGM1.  This will 
close all open files and end all active programs below the current level 
in the call stack.

NOTE: if somehow PGM4 or PGM5 were not compiled with CRTBNDRPG ... 
ACTGRP(*DFTACTGRP) then this will not work. :-o

Named Activation Group solution
=========================
Another alternative would be to convert all of the called OPM programs 
to ILE -- CLP to CLLE, and RPGIII to RPGLE, and create PGM2 with a named 
activation group, e.g. ACTGRP(PGM2) ... and create all the programs it 
calls with ACTGRP(*CALLER).  Then, when PGM2 returns to PGM1, PGM1 issues:

    RCLACTGRP ACTGRP(PGM2)

This is one of the main benefits of using ILE with named activation 
groups -- you can control termination of a named activation group far 
more easily than with RCLRSC in "OPM compatibility mode" (in the 
*DFTACTGRP).

I hope this makes sense ...

All the best,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 9/7/2010 10:05 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> Our RPG OPM's always had a parameter ReturnType so that we could instruct them to return with either RT or LR on. At the end of processing, the caller would use a cleanup routine to call all the programs that had been activated. The called programs would then just set on LR and end.
>
> For some reason unbeknown to me, this method was not used with RPGIV programs.
>
> Now, this (simplified)situation has "evolved" :
>
> PGM1(CLP)
> 	PGM2(RPGIII)
> 		PGM3(RPGIII)
> 			PGM4(RPGIV)
> 				PGM5(RPGIV Converted from RPGIII)
>
> Everything is running in DFTACTGRP.
>
> When PGM2 is finished, it will call PGM3 with ReturnType to tell it to switch on LR and return. PGM4 does not have this facility and always returns with LR off. As it does not know what PGM3 is doing, it never calls PGM5 to tell it to set on its LR indicator and its files stay open.
>
> On returning to PGM1, I need PGM5 to be freed up. A file it uses is staying open. The boss says to issue a call from PGM2 or PGM3 to PGM5 to get it to switch on LR. I don't know if that would even work, would it? Even if it did, there are other RPGIV called by PGM5 that would probably give the same problem. How do I get out of this mess?
>
>
> TIA.