Re: RPG ILE Problems (Activation Groups)

Hi Ken,
Bad choice of words.
Yes, this is really a service program.
In all my functions that require I/O access, I have a parm that indicates the
action for the routine.
If the action is *GET (for example), I test if the files are open, and if not,
open them.
If the action is *CLOSE, I just close any files that are open.

The *CLOSE action is issued from the program using the procedure when it is
complete.

Thanks,
 
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From: Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, March 8, 2011 4:29:48 PM
Subject: Re: RPG ILE Problems (Activation Groups)

Hi Jeff -

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:39:31 -0800 (PST), Jeff Young
<cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I normally do is to add a parm to my service program to indicate when to
close the file(s).
If the value is not set to close, I test if the file(s) are not open, and open
them.
When the calling program is finished processing, I call the service program with

a close flag and it then closes all of its files.
Normally, I make all parms other than the close flag optional so that I do not
need to pass dummy values when calling it to close the files.

Is this really a service program?  I wonder because you say that you
call the service program.  But service programs don't get called;
procedures within them do.  If it is a service program, why don't you
have a separate close procedure?

(For a regular program that is called repeatedly, I have a standard of
calling it with no parameters to shut it down.)

Ken
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