RE: How to unlock a record in an interactive job after 'x' amount of time has passed

Charles:

True, it probably won't help. But it has made me think about the potential.

If the interactive program does use a data queue to monitor display file wait 
times, there's no reason another program can't send entries to it. If the entry 
contained something like "Hey! Wake up! Unlock that record!", the interactive 
program could be written to react.

It'd take some up-front design work and some careful interfacing, but I see no 
reason it couldn't be done.

Tom Liotta


rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  10. RE: How to unlock a record in an interactive job after 'x'
>      amount    of time has passed (CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>That doesn't help him.
>
>He wants to be able to unlock the record from the program locking it.
>
>WAITRCD affects how long some other program will wait for a locked record.
>It has no effect on the program locking the record.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> >Is there a way from a RPGLE interactive program to track how 
>> long it has a
>> >record locked in update and after a certain amount of time 
>> has elapsed,
>> >gracefully unlock the record. Then the interactive program 
>> would show some
>> >info message to inform the User that they will need to retrieve the
>> >transaction again.
>> 
>>        the WAITRCD attribute on a database file detrmines
>> how long the program will wait until a CPF message is returned 
>> to your program. 
>> The default is 60 seconds (but can be changed / temporarily 
>> overridden).
>> 
>> By monitoring for the error and counting the number of times
>> you can determine the length of time.

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