Re: Reading a *DTAARA as SHRRD, not EXCLRD.

This particular *DTAARA is not updated by any program  Updates would be manual from a command line.
I need the program to do a read only (No update lock) for use in the program.   I would like any other instances to read the value also.   However, the first one puts a *EXCLRD lock on the *DTAARA which locks out other instances.

If there was a shared Read lock, all would be good. Am I coding something incorrectly?

Gavin.

On 2/21/2023 12:26 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

The simple answer - I don't think you can.

But why would you want to?

If you want a lock so that you can update the area then simply unlock it via an out operation after the update or issue an unlock if not updating.

If for some reason this is not viable perhaps explain what you are trying to do and we can perhaps suggest an alternative solution.


Jon P.

On Feb 21, 2023, at 12:14 PM, Gavin Inman<midrangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One for the group

I have a RPGLE Free form definition of the following *DTAARA.

DCL-DS userdft DTAARA(*AUTO:*USRCTL:'WEB/default');
Dftuser char(10);
END-DS;


First line in the program is:

in userdft;


an *EXCLRD lock is used and locking out other jobs. How can I get this to be a shared Read?


Thanks,

Gavin Inman.
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