Re: Help with a file allocation problem

The obvious implication is that some other job or user is accessing the
object you want to copy & apparently to do this copy you need unrestricted
access.

Now I have run into a scenario in which I know for a fact that I am the only
session accessing the object ... e.g. in evening I am only person on 400 & I
sign off all other sessions & STILL it gives this kind of message ... so then
I change the CL to allocate the object before doing this thing ...

and it works BUT ...
then I try to run another task that accesses the object & I am given the same
error message ... that tells me that the CL that allocated it needs to
deallocate when finished because the allocation is not to the session but to
the program within the session, even when that program has ended (it may have
left an unprinted report)

and I try that and it works NOT usually

In other words I have this CL
it allocates the object
it does whatever
it unallocates the object

and I still can't get into it
so for the task involved I have learned to

make sure I am the only user
sign off / on ... do step 1
sign off / on ... do step 2
sign off / on ... do step 3
sign off / on ... get on with my other work

What this is ... I am building / refreshing a cross-index file of BPCS BOM
info that connects parent parts (what we make for which customers) with child
parts (what we buy from vendors) such that it has
quantities of parents manufactured for which customers in which facilities
how many of each child component is needed on which final part
which vendor we aquire that material from
we then use this for multi-contract multi-supply-chain-players pricing

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)