Re: Retrieving object text of locked data area -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Retrieving object text of locked data area
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:10:49 -0600
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I am writing a program to retrieve the object text...

Since you're writing a program, you could retrieve the text description
from the data area object itself, but fall back to retrieving the
description from a file that you maintain if the data area is locked
exclusively by another job. This assumes that the data areas are persistent.

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