As far as I know it should do.  If there is any chance that it will not
work, it should be documented in the COBOL ref.  I'm afraid I've never been
a big fan of data areas so I've not dug into the details.

Jon Paris
Partner400



> -----Original Message-----
> Thanks Jon, that did the trick! Of course it would have helped if
> I had been
> paying greater attention to the italics in the manual, even still it's a
> poor example, yours however hit the nail on the head!
>
> Since you mention the locks, I have a quick question: This data area is a
> simple transaction counter however there can be more than one transaction
> running at a time. If I specify with lock, and another
> transaction attempts
> to retrieve the data area, will that take the "on exception" path?



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