Re: Passing ownership of object locks?

["Stephen Hunt" <deptit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who offered advice..

In the end I gave up on trying to maintain a lock on the data area, and
used the following suggestion :-

> From: by way of David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
<Srinivas.Rao@ipaper.com>
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Passing ownership of object locks?
> Date: 03 December 1997 23:15
>      Why don't you put a flag at the end of the data area viz. 'Y' to say
>      that a job is currently using the data area and update it after you
>      submitted the job.
> 
>      In the submitted program, at the end of the job reset that flag in
>      data area to say ' ', so other jobs can start using the data area.

I only hope the submitted job never ands abnormally, thus not resetting the
flag.

It still think it would have been nice if IBM had provided a native
IF-ACTIVE function such as is available on the S/36 and in the
S/36-Environment.

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