Re: Possible ODBC weirdness when deleting records

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wild guess. DSPFD and see if one is an SQL file type -> TABLE.

No, they are both classic DDS-based data PFs. In DSPFD, "Type of file"
says "Physical" and "File type" says "*DATA". There is no "SQL file
type" attribute. The only mention of SQL or tables is the attribute
labeled "Partitioned SQL Table", and that's "No".

Interestingly, the clearable one does have an SQL view that includes
it. But that view uses a bunch of files, and the other files in the
view are not SQL-clearable.

So the situation is

FileA (used by ViewX) - needs a lock to SQL DELETE, which performs
clear, not delete

FileB (not used by any view) - SQL DELETE always leaves deleted
records, never clears, even when there is no lock

FileC (used by ViewX) - SQL DELETE always leaves deleted records,
never clears, even when there is no lock

John Y.