Re: Record locking

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My understand is that you lock a record any time you read it for update. 
The lock goes away automatically after the update is performed, or when 
the next record is read. Once it's locked, other processes can't read it 
for update. You can release the record yourself with the unlock op code 
in RPG, or you can read it with the no-lock (N) modifier on the chain or 
read operation, but once you've done that, you can't update it.

Pete Hall
http://www.pbhall.us/



Booth Martin wrote:

> Last night a comment was made that startled me.  Is it possible this
> statement is correct?
>
> "If you access a physical file, even if its keyed, by its relative record
> number to update it, you will never get a record lock in other programs."
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