Re: ILE, Activation groups, and files staying open.

I'd need to know more about the actual call sequence to be able to offer
any real suggestions. Also are you using free-standing programs as the
helpers in that separate AG or are these Service Program routines. If
programs do they set on LR or ... ??


Jon Paris

On Jun 2, 2021, at 3:06 PM, Gerald Magnuson <gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

we have several "generic prompt/select" programs ("F4 programs") that

are

called to allow a user to select a value, and return it back to it's
calling program. Currently it is in its own activation group (don't know
why)

looking at a users job, which has been running for several hours, they

have

260 open data paths, and the same file is listed as being open many times
in the same activation group, (and in different activation groups as

well).

we only have 3 or so named activation groups, along with *CALLER, QILE,
and *DFTACTGRP in our environment. However, looking at the Display Open
Files screen, I see files open from one activation group, then another,
then another, then back to the first, then another, etc.

Questions (sorry, I am just not understanding ILE...):
As we enter these prompt programs, exit, and later return to them,
shouldn't the opens be reused, and not opened again?
Is this a symptom of us having a mix of named, QILE, *CALLER, and
*DFTACTGRP programs?
Would I not have as many open data paths if we had most ALL of our

programs

compiled as the same activation group?
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