Re: ANOTHER ANNOYING THING

I don't just want to be argumentative, but deleting a file, or member,
etc. is still an AS/400 operation. If you have a member open (not via
iSeries projects and not just left open from a previous edit session, but
directly through an RSE tree filter or a Table view), it will be locked by
OS/400 or i5/OS (whatever your current naming preference). If a member is
locked, it can't be deleted via any process except the one that has it
locked. Also if you had it open, you had it--why would you have to
recover from tape rather than the open member? It sounds as if something
else was done after closing and releasing the lock.

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/19/2007 01:00:29 PM:

date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:39:06 -0400
from: "Bill Barnes" <bbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WDSCI-L] ANOTHER ANNOYING THING

This was my fault for not closing the object. Be that as it may, when
moving in the AS400 nothing is deleted until the command completes
successfully. RSE doe it different. I went to move a source member
from one library to another and forgot that I still had the member open
on both libraries, RSE decided to punish me and deleted both members
leaving me the fun of having to recover from tape. Yippee Ky Yay Ky
Oh. I will concede that I should have been more careful, but iSeries
doesn't let you do such things. I assume there is an archive or
something somewhere but I can't find it.



Bill Barnes