Comments on: AS/400 record lock situation http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/ Sat, 25 May 2013 17:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: February 8, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87708 The Most-Watched IT Questions: February 8, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:50:00 +0000 #comment-87708 [...] 7. Philpl1jb, TomLiotta, and YuVa47 gave a member some guidance regarding an AS/400 record lock situation. [...]

]]> By: yuva47 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87339 yuva47 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:02:55 +0000 #comment-87339 The easiest and probably the most useful way is to inform the second user that the record is locked by displaying it in a small windows with the user code of the first user (the one who is locking the record).

YuVa

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87246 tomliotta Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:02:59 +0000 #comment-87246 Again — How do you want it to be handled? What do you want the ideal actions to be?

The system would not be useful for business if programs could simply bypass record locks. No one would trust the system. But situations can be handled if you can say what you want to happen. Asking about “unlocking” won’t get anywhere. It’s a wrong question.

Describe what you want to happen. We can describe ways to cause the process result that you are after. But the result needs to be a business result, not a technical result. “Unlocking” is a technical result.

Tom

]]> By: sangay http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87189 sangay Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:51:33 +0000 #comment-87189 Is there a scenario that both users will face the record lock situation or only the second user? If both then how to use the record without unlocking it?

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87152 tomliotta Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:59:40 +0000 #comment-87152 How to handle this situation?

How do you want it to be handled? What do you want the ideal actions to be?

Tom

(p.s. This is a different situation from the P1/P2 case.)

]]> By: philpl1jb http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87141 philpl1jb Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:51:21 +0000 #comment-87141 Your program needs to keep an original set of data the change time stamp of the records, perhaps in hidden subfile fields.

When the request to change is received by the program
- chain into the physical file
- check the original set of data against the set just received
if the same
update the record
if different
inform the user that the record has been changed and load and display the new record.

Phil

]]> By: jaymz69 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/record-lock-situaktion/#comment-87133 jaymz69 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:48:56 +0000 #comment-87133 I have the same thing happen on certain programs too. I would like to hear what others have to say, too.

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