Re: Allocating a display file

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

I always have to ask all the users to signoff.

Art

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm sure this is nothing new, and probably goes back to the S/38 days, but
> it's new to me, so...
>
> I just tried to allocate a display file.  I wanted to make sure nobody had
> it before I change the display file and its underlying program.  Lo and
> behold I get a CPF0894 error which basically says I can't allocate a
> display file.  It certainly seems this limitation has been around for a
> very long time, but I've never run into it before.
>
> I'm just wondering if anybody else has ever felt a need to exclusively
> lock a display file and if so, how they got around this particular error.
>
> Thanks!
>
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