Re: RPG ILE Problems (Activation Groups)

On 3/4/2011 8:23 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:

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(Basically?) True for DFTACTGRP(*NO) ACTGRP(*CALLER) when called from
the command line or other OPM (or OPM mode) program. The easiest
problem to manifest is when such program ended with LR = *OFF, and a
RCLRSC command is used, the reclaim won't clean it up properly. In
particular, the files will be closed but the program will still be
activated and expect it's files to be open. In fact, the %open() bif
will return that the files are open when in fact they aren't
(completely) and the program will crash with a CPF error.

Charles, what you describe is true for a _service_program_, but not for a program.

When an ILE *CALLER _program_ was running in the DAG and then a RCLRSC is done, the programs static storage is not released, but it is (somehow) marked for reinitialization. When the program is called again, all its static storage is reinitialized.

When an ILE *CALLER _service_program_ was running in the DAG and then a RCLRSC is done, the service program's static storage is not released, and it is not marked for reinitialization. When a procedure in the service program is called again, all its static storage is the same as before the RCLRSC.