PowerHouse activity

[James B. Byrne]

I am revisiting some very old Quick code and I have a question every now and
then which I hope to bounce off someone else; who knows PowerHouse.

PowerHouse here is 8.39 running on MPE/iX 7.5pp5+?? and using Image plus a few
KSAM files.

In one of the older programs I am looking at I see this construct

ROCEDURE UPDATE
BEGIN
STARTLOG TRANSACTIONS
LOCK TRANSACTIONS FILE, TRANACCT FILE, TRANDETL FILE,              &
     WORK-ACCT FILE, DISBURSEMENT FILE, ITEM-DISB FILE, ITEMS FILE,&
     DISB-ACCT FILE, ACCOUNTS FILE, REVENUE FILE
PUT NOTDELETED TRANSACTIONS
. . .

In another I see this:

PROCEDURE UPDATE
  BEGIN
    LOCK ACCOUNTS FILE , GL-ACRU FILE , REQUISITIONS FILE ,        &
         REVENUE FILE , TRANACCT-IN FILE , TRANDETL FILE ,         &
         TRANSACTIONS-IN FILE
;# Fetch and calculate accrued work-in-progress update immediately before PUT.
    DO INTERNAL ACCRUED-COST
;# Despite its name STARTLOG actually begins a transaction block.
    STARTLOG ACCOUNTS
. . .

Is there any significance in having the STARTLOG occur before the LOCK?

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