RE: Record Locking.

[Joe Teff <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

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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? 

You cannot update prior to getting a lock on your input (READ, CHAIN, etc), so
you must use the error indicator on the input operation. I would at least put
that into a DO loop with an error indicator. There is a field in the SDS that
has the error message containing the user who has the lock (I do not have
the from/to positions handy). I would suggest that inside the loop, you display
that message in a window and ask the user if they want to retry or cancel.

Joe Teff
Information Technology Consultant
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
Quality Data Systems
Minneapolis, MN

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