Re: IFS Locked

Hi Don.

Have you tried an IPL?

Best Regards,

Peter_Lunde@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Subject: IFS Locked

Hi Team,

System is V7R5 and PTF's last applied in October 2025

I had an error this afternoon where a programs that use the IFS were all failing.

As an example I could create a directory in the root Eg crtdir '/atest' and this succeeded.

But if I tried to create a directory Eg crtdir '/homr/atest' this would fail CPFA09E Object in use. Object is /home/atest.

I tried the following to try and find what was locking but all returned nothing.

SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.IFS_OBJECT_LOCK_INFO(PATH_NAME => '/home/'));

SELECT *
FROM QSYS2.OBJECT_LOCK_INFO
WHERE OBJECT_NAME = '/home/'
-- AND OBJECT_TYPE = '*DIR' I tried with this line and without it
;

I found a couple of jobs that were suspicious and cancelled them and thought the problem was solved but then the problem was encountered further down the path Eg /home/pdf/invoices was locked

Can someone advise how I could check what was locking the directory or path please.

Thank you for any suggestions


Don Brown


Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne


Don Brown

Senior Consultant




P: 1300 088 400




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