Comments on: AS400 record lock http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-record-lock/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: yorkshireman http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-record-lock/#comment-97493 yorkshireman Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:27:03 +0000 #comment-97493 You need a design level standard

Don’t lock the record.

Don’t ever write anything that locks a record – ever.

Except just before you update it.

read and display
read and display
decide an update is needed

read the record for update (lock)
check it hasn’t changed since you displayed it ( tell the user if so)
update it
release the lock

read and display
read and display
blahblah

]]> By: toddn2000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-record-lock/#comment-77842 toddn2000 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:40:57 +0000 #comment-77842 If you cannot end the job normaly you may to to do an ENDJOBABN.
We sometimes have a “phantom” job that just wont end or free up the resources.

But see if that is the actual user who has the like with th WRKOBJLCK as mentioned above and let us know.

]]> By: philpl1jb http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/as400-record-lock/#comment-77745 philpl1jb Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:24:32 +0000 #comment-77745 Are you still getting the error message??? Please tell use the message.

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