EGL add creates lock

[Jason Abreu <abreuj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to create an EGL page that allows users to modify batch
requests and calls the appropriate COBOL batch program.

I have created/tested the page that loads/modifies the user's request
lines.  I added a submit button to call the program and am running into
an issue.

First, when a request is submitted the request lines get written to an
intermediate file to ensure the report is run with the requests at
submission time.
Then the batch program reads the intermediate file and once the requests
are loaded into the program, the records from the intermediate file are
deleted.  My problem lies here.

When I execute the EGL 'add' statement to create the intermediate
records, a lock is created and the batch program cannot access those
records [access is I-O] because of the lock.

How do I get rid of this lock once all of my records are added to the file?