RE: Record already locked by the job

Are you saying that your trigger program does I/O to the file that the trigger 
program is attached to?

You can't do that.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> Subject: Record already locked by the job
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a trigger program doing the following:
> 
> - open physical file under commitment control (fully 
> procedural with add)
> 
> - open logicals based on same file in input only
> 
> - search for record to update in the file using the logicals
> 
> - if no such record found, create a new record
> 
> - if such a record found, chain on the file using the 
> physical and update
> the said record
> 
> - close files
> 
> The commit (or rollback) is issued by the program that caused 
> the trigger to
> be called. Several calls to the trigger may happen within one 
> commit cycle.
> 
> Unfortunately, a crash occurs on the update statement. The message is
> "record already locked to job".
> 
> Is this happening because the program is called as part of a 
> trigger? Is it
> because I am closing and re-opening the files? Why is the 
> crash detected by
> the update and not the chain?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Pascal
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