SET LOCK FILE UPDATE

[Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org]

MPE/iX 6.5; PowerHouse 8.19C

>From the manual:

SET LOCK FILE

"Individual locks are applied for each dataset involved. Datasets not
mentioned are not locked."

UPDATE

"The SET LOCK UPDATE statement specifies that locking is applied only for
the duration of each individual update. Since the SET LOCK UPDATE statement
lets other users change the data betwen the time the data record is read
and the time it is updated by QTP...[checksum is used to compare the images
of the record in play]"

We have a program into which SET LOCK FILE UPDATE was added several months
after being installed into production, apparently (not sufficient
documentation in the program <sigh!>) to keep the environment stable for
the duration of the RUN. In fact, there is no UPDATE verb in the program at
all.

Here is the question: Is any entity, in fact, locked since no updating
occurs?

Thanks.
--
Leonard S. Berkowitz
Perot Health Care Systems
(Harvard Pilgrim Health Care account)
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