Re: Getting Information from a Job that has locked a record.

Mike Cunningham wrote:

we got tired of dealing with this issue and wrote a generic RPG that we call 
whenever we get a record lock passing it the message data from the SDS data 
structure. The called RPG utility does a sndbrkmsg to the person holding the 
lock asking them to get out and displays a screen to the person asking for the 
lock showing them the person who has the lock and their office phone number. It 
also sends an email to the person holding the lock in case they are not in the 
5250 screen at the time. If the same person gets sent the same lock message 
more than 5 times we also end the job to release the lock. Helps a lot with 
automated night processes when users go home and keep records locked.

Mike,

Now that is just too cool.  How did you do all of that?



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