Re: Setting on *inlr in a service program's module..

You can prove this yourself. Write a program with SQL and open a cursor.
Step into it with debug and stop before the close cursor. Try to clear the
table. It won't work. Step through the rest of the code and close the
cursor. File will still have a lock. Try to clear the file it will work and
the file will be closed.



On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But those are soft locks. If a file is closed in SQL it leaves it open
with a soft lock which means simply that if something needs to do something
with the file with a higher level, it will release the lock by actually
closing the file.

A hard lock will not be released. SQL is designed to use locks more
intelligently.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Hiebert, Chris <
chris.hiebert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan
Campin
--The other question I would have is why anyone would write a service
program these days using file I/O instead of SQL.

With file I/O I get more control over the file locks. When I close a
file, its closed.


SQL doesn't always close the files when you run a close cursor.
So, short of destroying active service program, killing the activation
group, or other extreme methods, that SQL service program is going to hold
onto file locks.



Chris Hiebert
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