RE: How to unlock a record in an interactive job after 'x'amountoftime has passed

BTW, if you do decide to use the timeout "feature", just remember to
consider the angry phone calls you'll get when a user does take that coffee
break, comes back just before the timeout occurs and starts keying in
information and, before s/he has a chance to press Enter, BAM - timeout.
Because the timer does not recognize keystrokes, just function keys
(including Enter).

Based on the problem you are trying to solve, I would advise you to consider
the no-lock alternative that others have suggested.  A bit more coding no
matter how you decide to do it.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Andy Hautamaki
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:22 AM
>
> Hi Jonathan;
>
> No. Its to do with a display file. A user is in a maintenance program and
> for whatever reason is inactive in that application for 'x' amount of time
> and has a record locked. (Goes for coffee, lunch or whatever) In the
> meanwhile other applications are trying to grab that record and are
> repeatedly trying to access the record. (Record lock, retry, record lock
> retry, etc etc)
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