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> Now, onto my question.  I have several programs that create temp files for 
> purposes of migrating and mining data.  Although I do not see it happening 
> very often, there is the possiblity that two users could inavertently run 
> into each other.  Is there an easy way for me to do the following:
If you are building truly temporary files, put them in QTEMP.  The
system creates a unique QTEMP library for each job, and as you already
know, what's in my QTEMP is not accessible by any other job.
> 
> 1. Determine if there is a record lock currently applied to a file and if 
> so, who has that lock.
dsprcdlck somefile

> 
> 2. Lock a file so that nobody else can make changes to it while the program
> (s) is running.
Have a look at the docs for the ALCOBJ command.

Regards,
Rich


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