Re: Record Locking.

[Richard Rosenbluth <rose400@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should inform your user that the record can not be updated because
it is in use by another user.  Then let him refresh his copy of the
record and retry his update.

It is not safe to loop until the record is available because your user
may end up changing values that were changed between his retrieving the
record and his attempt to update. 

If the record is locked by a program that just _reads_ the record, then
change the file in that program to INPUT. 
 
-- 
Richard Rosenbluth
Rose Information Management Co.
mailto:rose400@pacbell.net
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Erick Garske wrote:
> 
> How should you best deal with updating a record that may be locked by
> another user? Use the error indicator in the update and place in a do
> loop?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Erick
> 
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