RE: IFS Locked

Hi Rob,

No exit points.

FYI I opened case with IBM and they suggested the following.

If you are unable to and should same issue re-surfaces, please use info
from link below to determine jobs that have locks on IFS files and can be
found using Navigator for i:

[1]https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/finding-jobs-having-locks-files-root-file-system-0

Or use the QP0FPTOS API to find the locked job:
CALL PGM(QP0FPTOS) PARM(*LSTOBJREF '/path/to/your/file' *FORMAT2)
Please substitute the actual path for the file you are interested in. This
command will produce a spool file that will tell any locks held for the
file. For example, when it is running, the ZENDSVR6 Apache instance will
have several jobs holding locks on file
/usr/local/zendsvr6/bin/php-cgi.bin, the PHP engine. You can see these
locks by running this command:
CALL PGM(QP0FPTOS) PARM(*LSTOBJREF '/usr/local/zendphp74/bin/php-cgi.bin'
*FORMAT2)
Review the output for the locked job.

Cheers
Don

 

Don Brown

Senior Consultant
 
[2]OneTeam IT Pty Ltd
P: 1300 088 400

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2026 10:44 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IFS Locked

Really weird. Any chance you have some exit point software that locks new
objects and does a scan on them and just doesn't release the lock before
you need it?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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