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File and Record Locking

  • Indexed files do not detect or acquire locks if they are opened for output. This is regardless of whether you specify the WITH LOCK phrase
  • Relative and sequential files cannot be locked exclusively
  • Files which are opened for input can detect record locks, although the RM/COBOL documentation states that they cannot. When the RM directive is set under this COBOL system, record locks can still be detected by files opened for input
  • The first record in sequential files opened for input-output is locked whenever any other record in that file is locked
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