IS OBJECT BEING ACCESSED BY ANOTHER PROCESS - AND WHAT IS THE PROCESS

Hello all,
 
I am trying to find a means by which to determine if an object (root or
on qsys.lib), is being accessed and what is accessing the object.  I
thought that calling a cl from within my cobol program that comtained
the DSPAUT command would return an 'object busy' type status, but it
does not do that if I have the object in edit mode in the root file
system.  Before processing the file, I want to know that it is not being
accessed by another process or person.  Is there a way to just check
this status, or will I have to attempt to lock a file and then let it
fail (not my qst choice)?
 
Thanks,
 
Adrienne McConnon
Vercuity - Parsippany - NJ