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

You're probably right, Charles, because of the OVRDBF issues affecting also other files...


On 6/4/2021 4:33 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 1:35 PM Alan Cassidy <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At my shop, somebody wrote a trigger program and then attached it to the
most-used file in the system.

That file is also used by the most-used program. It runs standalone and
also is called by maybe up to hundreds of other programs. Quite a "legacy".

I don't know what activation group attribute he used but it created
havoc for a few minutes. (I suspect *CALLER). Till somebody hit an
emergency virtual) STOP button.


That sounds more like ACTGRP(*NEW) actually...

Very, very bad idea for a trigger...

Charles

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