user in update and locks up a report being run

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Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:24:24PM -0500, Dennis Malen achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> I know that this has been addressed a couple of times.
> 
> Wasn't there a utility for filePro that can identify the user when they are 
> in update and a report cannot continue. filePro shows the record but we need 
> the identity of the user so they we can break them out.
> 
> It usually occurs when someone is on a break or out to lunch.

I wrote a wrapper around the showlock program that does exactly that on
unix and linux systems.  It's been tested on SCO and Linux.  It's a little
touchy doing it on linux, as you have to walk a bunch of data to get at the
actual originating user due to how SUID is handled on linux.

Assuming AIX has the appropriate output for the command other than showlock
upon which my wrapper relies (it probably does), this would work fine.

$5k for the program.

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