Expert: Concise Systems/Laird Scranton - 1/19/2008

Question
Other than sending a msg to the user to sign off, then back on, is there a way to stop the record locks, this is dsx data transfer and is extremely important there are no ramifications

Answer
No, not without rethinking how, when or why the record gets updated. You can consider it a law of physics for all computers that two processes cannot lock the same record for update at the same time, because the computer would not know which version of the two differently-updated records to keep as the final and correct version.

You could use the WRKOBJLCK command to check if any user has a lock on the file before you start the data transfer, or you could copy the file to another library and then do your data transfer from the copied file - no user would have a lock on the copy.

- Laird