<div dir="ltr"><div>the program does browse lookups to the actual file with dummy fields, etc.....but this 'used' to work as designed but for some reason it doesn't now</div><div>if I open two sessions now I can pull the record up in both sessions?? </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Richard Kreiss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkreiss@gccconsulting.net" target="_blank">rkreiss@gccconsulting.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Are you acing the record from a browse lookup and then updating the record?<br>
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Is the update being done by a popup update to the lookup file or are you updating the record using a screen with dummy fields and then posting to the actual record?<br>
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Richard Kreiss<br>
GCC Consulting<br>
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Office: <a href="tel:410-653-2813" value="+14106532813">410-653-2813</a><br>
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> Behalf Of <a href="mailto:scooter6@gmail.com">scooter6@gmail.com</a><br>
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> Cc: <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>; Del<br>
> Subject: Re: records not locking?<br>
><br>
> No that variable isn't set......<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:32 AM, <<a href="mailto:ken_wakeman@me.com">ken_wakeman@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Could the environment variable PFREADONLY have been set? On a. Profile<br>
> > by chance.<br>
> ><br>
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.<br>
> > Original Message<br>
> > From: <a href="mailto:scooter6@gmail.com">scooter6@gmail.com</a><br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:26 AM<br>
> > To: Del<br>
> > Cc: <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>
> > Subject: Re: records not locking?<br>
> ><br>
> > Well this uses rclerk and we've never in the past (to my knowledge)<br>
> > been able to access the same record in this rclerk program....<br>
> > If I have the record 'directly' in update mode, and try to post a<br>
> > payment to it, then I get that message 'Record is being updated - access<br>
> denied'<br>
> > But I'm pretty shocked to see suddenly in this program two people can<br>
> > have the same record up at the same time and can make changes to it ,<br>
> > etc....but I do notice that if I'm the 2nd person to access it, and I<br>
> > make changes to it, it doesn't actually update the record? But if<br>
> > you're the first person to have it pulled up, those changes will take effect.....<br>
> > Very strange....I have double checked that all my lookups to this main<br>
> > customer file are 'protected' - I thought by doing that, you avoided<br>
> > this type scenario?<br>
> > Am I wrong on that?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Del <<a href="mailto:neroni3000@comcast.net">neroni3000@comcast.net</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Don't know anything about CentOS.<br>
> > > However, I have been dealing with filePro for many years, and always<br>
> > > understood two people could not update the same record at the same<br>
> > > time (using dclerk or rclerk).<br>
> > > After reading your post, I tried it here on a Windows 7 based<br>
> > > system, and was a little flabbergasted to find that the system<br>
> > > allowed me to get into update mode on the same record from two<br>
> different sessions.<br>
> > > However, when I tried it on my Unix system, an attempt to update a<br>
> > > record that was already being updated on another session gave me the<br>
> > > message, "Record Is Being Updated - Access Denied".<br>
> > > This difference between the Windows based system the the Unix based<br>
> > > one<br>
> > is<br>
> > > very surprising (and disturbing!).<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Del Neroni<br>
> > ><br>
> > > -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:scooter6@gmail.com">scooter6@gmail.com</a><br>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 8:04 AM<br>
> > > To: <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>
> > > Subject: records not locking?<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > We've had this filepro sytem for years -- CentOS 5.10 and filePro<br>
> > 5.6.10R4<br>
> > ><br>
> > > We have an app written years ago that is basically a front end<br>
> > > lookup to<br>
> > a<br>
> > > main customer file<br>
> > > It used to be if someone has a record pulled up from this main file,<br>
> > > and someone else attempted to access it, you would see at the bottom<br>
> > something<br>
> > > stating watiing for record to be unlocked or something like that,<br>
> > > don't remember the exact verbiage<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Some of you might remember I recently had to replace the CentOS RAID<br>
> > > and left the filePro RAID in tact when we had a root kit<br>
> > > virus.....so I<br>
> > simply<br>
> > > swapped the 2 OS drives and configured what I needed to user wise,<br>
> > > etc.....by taking the /etc/passwd files, etc from the old OS and on<br>
> > > to<br>
> > the<br>
> > > new OS drives....<br>
> > > Everything has worked out with no problems.....I only mention this<br>
> > because<br>
> > > this is the only thing that's changed on this system...<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Yesterday, one of my operations people informed me that two people<br>
> > > could have the same record pulled up at one time and update it 'at will'??<br>
> > > Now the program used to access the main customer file is just a<br>
> > > filePro file that does a lot of lookups to display the data from the<br>
> > > main<br>
> > customer<br>
> > > file - and I checked input processing and made sure all the lookups<br>
> > > are 'protected'<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Any idea what would cause them no longer seeing the 'waiting for<br>
> > > record<br>
> > to<br>
> > > be unlocked' message as before? Very strange.....this has never been<br>
> > > the case in the 15 yrs we've had this program built, etc....<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Thanks for any insight....pretty confused on this<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Scott<br>
> > > PDM<br>
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