Re: Record locking (was: commitment or journaling) -- MIDRANGE-L

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boothm@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> The past discussions brought about by Tim's notes data entry problem
> pointed up some decent update control techniques, 
> 
> Did I miss a point in his request?  Was Tim planning on doing any updating
> of the master record?  I thought he wanted to just spin some comment
> records, up to 20 at a time, out to a detail file and he was needing to
> assure the records remained in proper sequence and not scattered or
> randomly mixed with other comments?

If I recall each user received a screen with 20 sequence numbers for
notes.  The second user's notes would overlay the first users. 
Basically the first user needed to reserve the first 20 sequence numbers
in Tim's particular case.

My post was a response to the general tone of the solutions offered.

James W. Kilgore
qappdsn@ibm.net
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