records not locking?

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/16/2014 12:39 PM, Del wrote:
> After reading about this problem, I tried it here.
> On a Windows 7, filePro 5.0.11 system, the system allowed me to get into
> update mode on the same record at the same time from two different sessions.
> I made a small change in the first session, saved it, verified the change, then
> saved the same record from the second session with no changes, and this wiped
> out the change from the first session.  There were no lookups involved, just
> using dclerk update on the same record at the same time.
> However, when I tried the same thing 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!).
> Am I doing something wrong, or is there an actual problem here?
> Certainly don't want this happening at my client locations.

I've never heard of such a thing happening on anything other than the 
ancient non-network MS-DOS version of filePro.  There's no such thing as a 
non-network Windows version, and there hasn't been an MS-DOS version since 
long before 5.0 came out.

Are your two dclerk sessions on the same Windows box, or two different ones? 
  Are the filePro files stored locally, or a network drive?  If network, 
what is the host?

-- 
Kenneth Brody