Re: Service Program issue.

Charles and Phil,

You could easily (inadvertently) get that *SRVPGM activated into more than one activation group.  This can affect override scoping, etc.  :-/

If the programs issue OVRDBFs, it may not always give the expected result, due to poor defaults chosen for OVRDBF with respect to ACTGRP scoping.

If the *SRVPGM is ACTGRP(*CALLER) they could easily call procedures from within a program that itself runs in the *DFTACTGRP, and as you well know, this is almost never "a good thing."

You might also have other programs invoking this same *SRVPGM from some other *NEW or named AG, such as QILE, etc., and then you could easily have more than one copy of the same *SRVPGM "activated" within the same job  (but not in the same AG).  Then you will likely have a bad day.

Things only get worse as you try to follow that rabbit down the rabbit hole.

Just saying ...

Mark S. Waterbury

On Thursday, June 10, 2021, 01:33:32 PM EDT, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:21 AM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

One or more of those statements is incorrect.  (unless maybe you're way
behind on PTFs)

I suppose that's a bit harsh and not the best way of putting it...

Point being, SETLL and READE work the same way every time.  So there's
something else going on.


Charles