RE: Data area question

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you saying it automatically reads (IN opcode), applying a lock? That
doesn't sound right.....  D spec and C spec should produce the same results.
Aside from the definition, the use remains the same, via the IN, OUT, and
UNLOCK opcodes.  Perhaps an unlock after your code that reads (and updates)
the dataarea, though if it was working before, it should be working now.
Are you sure something else wasn't lost when you removed the DEFINE
statement?

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Malchow, Grizzly [mailto:GMalchow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:07 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Data area question


Is it better to define a data area with the *DTAARA    DEFINE, or is
better do it in the D specs? Or is it just a matter of preference? I've
noticed that when it is done in the D specs, the program accesses it
with out the IN op code. We're getting errors because a data area is
locked when other programs go to access the data area. 

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