Re: check for lock on file in IFS

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could try Carsten Flensburg's DSPIFSLCK program.  This is an old 
link, hope it still wroks -- if not, try Google.
http://systeminetwork.com/article/club-tech-iseries-programming-tips-newsletter-43
http://www2.systeminetwork.com/noderesources/code/clubtechcode/DspIfsLck.zip


On 1/30/2013 8:06 AM, Gary Thompson wrote:
> After a problem that prevented a file on our IFS from
> being processed by an in-house app, we have been
> looking at a better way to detect what we think was
> the cause: a lock on the IFS file held by a windows app.
>
> I don't see that System i Navigator shows locks ?
>
> So far, this is what I have found as a way to get a list
> of locks:
> CALL QP0FPTOS PARM(*LSTOBJREF '/ifspath/ifsfile' *FORMAT2)
>
> Apparently, this API returns a spool/print file as output,
> but ideally I would like to detect this using the QP0L_SUBTREE
> API - is this possible ?.
>
> Or, because this involves a mapped drive, maybe I should look
> at this from a Network File System perspective ?