Re: Stupid question of the century

On 10/05/2009, at 4:05 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

The boss's boss wants a quicker turnaround of projects, so much so that we
have been asked to look into other languages available on the AS/400 (EGL
is the first one and that might mean another thread in and of itself)
He is tired of having to wait to change/recompile ALL the applicable
programs for a change to a file, then having to push the appropriate people
off the system so that these changes can be applied to the files on the
production system

Object locks are applied for a reason. Your boss's boss just needs to be slapped into sensibility (as hysterical people are slapped into sensibility) and shown why what he wants is dangerous. Yet another example of the instant gratification wanted by modern society. I'd be very surprised if he could gratify his desire on any system.

Having said that, you might want to investigate:

http://www.precosis.com.au/lockbuster.htm

which says it can accomplish his desire. It does so by copying the existing object lock information, removing that information so the OS thinks no locks exist, and then re-applies the lock information after the desired change. Even though I know the author of this tool I would not use it in a production environment. As I said above, locks are in place for a reason--learn to live with them.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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