RE: *INLR

There's overhead for submitting a job but, if the invoice processing takes a bit of time, it's worth it.

It's also easily understood and maintainable by others down the road and a quick and easy implementation for you.

Maybe consider a jobq entry and/or subsystem that you can adjust to "throttle" the workload as you fine tune it?

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power


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From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:06 PM
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Subject: RE: *INLR

Thanks everyone for your thoughts on how to rewrite this but unfortunately,
the logic was only an example to show the program flow. Because of how the
system is written and what needs to be done, PgmA submitting PgmB as
individual jobs is the only solutions without spending a ton of hours doing
code rewrite.

I think that I have my answer in that *inlr being on or off really makes no
difference because when the job ends, everything from PgmB gets cleaned up
either way. Feel free to correct that if I misunderstood some of the
explanations.



-----Original Message-----
From: smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 4:48 PM
To: Midrange RPG List <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: *INLR

If I have PgmA and it repeatedly calls PgmB, I know not setting on LR makes
the process faster because it doesn't have to reload PgmB into memory every
time.

The argument that we are having is related to PgmA submitting PgmB to enable
multi-thread processing. Does not setting on LR help in this case because
they are different jobs?

For example,
PgmA
Do until shutdown
Read Invoice Header File for unprocessed invoices
If a new invoice is found
Mark the invoice as In-Process
Submit PgmB to process the invoice


PgmB
Process invoice based on invoice number received
Mark invoice as Processed
** Note: no *INLR logic here
Return

VS

Process invoice based on invoice number received
Mark invoice as Processed
*inlr = *on
Return


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