RE: Record locking in PF

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Does anyone know how to lock a particular record 
>or a = group of records in a file using either RPG or CL. 

Not in CL, but in RPG you read the record for update.  That is, you declare
the file to be update capable in the F specs and then you read a record.
When RPG reads the record it is locked.  To lock a group of records you need
to be operating under commitment control.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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