Re: Dealing with CPE3029 in CPYFRMIMPF

strictly as a workaround... open the file for read only with an RPGLE (like
Scott Klement examples) and write a new file to process.
If you can monitor the error msg - only take this route if the normal
cpyfrmimpf throws the error. Not pretty, but should work.

Jim Franz

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM mlazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Patrik,

The lock that Excel seems to do is *not* exclusive. As I mentioned, a
MOV or REN is accepted. But, to answer your question, I can't make that
folder read only.

-mark

On 8/28/2025 6:32 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

Hello Mark,

Am 28.08.2025 um 22:13 schrieb mlazarus<mlazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The situation is that there are .csv files in the IFS that might be

open in Excel. All the program is attempting to do is copy the data into a
PF. It seems to want an exclusive lock.

Another idea, inspired from Peter's reply.

Do you need those CSV files being writable by Excel? If no, why not make

this folder/share readonly for users? If Excel sees the file being
readonly, it presumedly can't or at least won't request an (exclusive)
write lock on it.

:wq! PoC

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