records not locking?

[ken_wakeman at me.com]

Could the environment variable PFREADONLY have been set? On a. Profile by chance.

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  Original Message  
From: scooter6 at gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:26 AM
To: Del
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: records not locking?

Well this uses rclerk and we've never in the past (to my knowledge) been
able to access the same record in this rclerk program....
If I have the record 'directly' in update mode, and try to post a payment
to it, then I get that message 'Record is being updated - access denied'
But I'm pretty shocked to see suddenly in this program two people can have
the same record up at the same time and can make changes to it , etc....but
I do notice that if I'm the 2nd person to access it, and I make changes to
it, it doesn't actually update the record? But if you're the first person
to have it pulled up, those changes will take effect.....
Very strange....I have double checked that all my lookups to this main
customer file are 'protected' - I thought by doing that, you avoided this
type scenario?
Am I wrong on that?



On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Del <neroni3000 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Don't know anything about CentOS.
> However, I have been dealing with filePro for many years, and always
> understood two people could not update the same record at the same time
> (using dclerk or rclerk).
> After reading your post, I tried it here on a Windows 7 based system, and
> was a little flabbergasted to find that the system allowed me to get into
> update mode on the same record from two different sessions.
> However, when I tried it on my Unix system, an attempt to update a record
> that was already being updated on another session gave me the message,
> "Record Is Being Updated - Access Denied".
> This difference between the Windows based system the the Unix based one is
> very surprising (and disturbing!).
>
> Del Neroni
>
> -----Original Message----- From: scooter6 at gmail.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 8:04 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: records not locking?
>
>
> We've had this filepro sytem for years -- CentOS 5.10 and filePro 5.6.10R4
>
> We have an app written years ago that is basically a front end lookup to a
> main customer file
> It used to be if someone has a record pulled up from this main file, and
> someone else attempted to access it, you would see at the bottom something
> stating watiing for record to be unlocked or something like that, don't
> remember the exact verbiage
>
> Some of you might remember I recently had to replace the CentOS RAID and
> left the filePro RAID in tact when we had a root kit virus.....so I simply
> swapped the 2 OS drives and configured what I needed to user wise,
> etc.....by taking the /etc/passwd files, etc from the old OS and on to the
> new OS drives....
> Everything has worked out with no problems.....I only mention this because
> this is the only thing that's changed on this system...
>
> Yesterday, one of my operations people informed me that two people could
> have the same record pulled up at one time and update it 'at will'??
> Now the program used to access the main customer file is just a filePro
> file that does a lot of lookups to display the data from the main customer
> file - and I checked input processing and made sure all the lookups are
> 'protected'
>
> Any idea what would cause them no longer seeing the 'waiting for record to
> be unlocked' message as before? Very strange.....this has never been the
> case in the 15 yrs we've had this program built, etc....
>
> Thanks for any insight....pretty confused on this
>
> Scott
> PDM
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