Re: How can i test, from rpg, if a display file is in use?

I have used similar method myself.

I'm creating an 'Unlock process' program.

The locked process has a data area that needs to be cleared -- so that
another user may initiate/use the (locked) process.

I can do this easily from my 'Unlock process' program, but . . .

My thought was to further insure that the process wasn't really in use...
i could see if the display file, used to initiate it, was open/in use.
(i was thinking that should be fairly easy to do)

The process that gets locked is only ever rarely actually locked.

Why it happens --
A user either exits the 5250 session abnormally or stays signed on so long
that the nightly backup kicks their session off.

It would probably just be easier to throw a job in, at the end of nightly
backups, to clear the data area.

Thanks Jose,

John


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Another way I have seen is people sometimes use a data area with a flag
when screen open flag equal 1 and then all programs using this screen
check
that flag in this dtaarea.

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 2:14 PM Jose Perez <joseenocperez.jp@xxxxxxxxx
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