Re: Weird program errors that I can't duplicate. Maybe activation group problems? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Weird program errors that I can't duplicate. Maybe activation group problems?
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:51:01 -0500
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On 2/16/2012 12:26 PM, Mike Wills wrote:

Two users have been reporting the same problem with one of my applications.
I have a very complicated subprocedure that calculates the taxes on an
invoice. I had one of the users try a few things, but I can't the program
to crash on-demand (though it did several times though the testing).
...
I am by no means an expert with activation groups. Should I change this to
a named activation group? ActGrp(ARACTGRP)

I can't imagine even a far-fetched scenario where a numeric overflow problem (MCH1210) could be _corrected_ by using a different activation group.

Depending on the nature of the problem, using a different activation group might make the problem go away, at least temporarily. But it wouldn't correct it, at most it would move it or hide it.

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