Re: Is there a process that would allow me to take control of an interactive session?

That's sort of what CICS does, more or less, Vern, and was a good enough design pattern for thoughtful and diligent AS/400 application architets.
The modern web-enabled IBM i demands more sophistication.
Of course, if one's organization has walked away from modernization, they'll be off the platform within a few years, so for them it doesn't matter much.


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True enough, Darryl - but that doesn't stop you from writing code anew that does what you want - briefly, read a record without a lock, preserve its value (using a DS for I/O is nice here), show the update screen, after enter pressed, read record again with lock (probably?), compare to saved state, if the same, update it, if not the same, notify user appropriately.


How's that, Jack, close enough for government work? I'm sure there are foibles lurking in that description, but it's maybe a start.