Re: Question about locking a data area

I'm not aware of any control you can apply from within RPG.

Status codes 431 and 432 are issued if the data area is already locked but whether there is a wait or not you'd have to run a test to determine.

If you were doing it with CL then you'd be using ALCOBJ and that does allow control over the wait time - but whether RPG uses that under the covers I'm afraid I have no idea. Hopefully, Barbara will see this and can provide a more definitive answer.


Jon P.

On Oct 30, 2023, at 4:04 PM, James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Given a data area, "BATON," declared as

D BATON S 1A DTAARA('FOO/BATON')

(spaces squeezed out for email purposes), how long will

C *LOCK IN BATON

wait for the data area to become available? And do I have any control over that, locking it from RPG?

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