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  3. February 2005

RE: How to tell if an object is in use?

Rob,

You took the words out of my mouth, almost...  I was going to suggest
the person re-architect their apps such that they use DB2 tables and SQL
and get away from flat files as that's the way things are going anyway. 
For the most part, locking is not an issue if you put in your
application to use record-level locking  on UPDATEs; easy to program and
let the database lock manager worry about locking.   I know
re-arcitecting is not a slam-dunk but its not rocket science either.   I
also believe IBM has some methodologies to help you move to real
relational.

Dave Odom

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