RE: Allocating a display file

Does it work like a program promote-- move the old to QRPLOBJ and install the new one; anyone using the old one works out of QRPLOBJ??

If you need to lock the file-- move it to a library all by itself and allocate the library??

Paul E Musselman
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 11:53 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Allocating a display file

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!