Re: Locking multiple records

Christian,

In a message dated 4/30/99 2:01:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chluebke@gmx.de 
writes:

> is it possible to lock more than one record in a file?
>  
>  I need an indicator that these records are in use and can't be used by 
> another job. But I do 
>  not want to write some data in that file to indicate this because if my 
> program fails they 
>  are locked forever... 

You _could_ open the file under commitment control, update the desired 
records, and then perform a ROLBK when you want to free them up.  Only 
problem is that, if the program crashes, the records will be COMITed 
automatically...

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

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