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>
> Item Subject: Image Locking
> >Is there any way to get around Images requirement of have the whole dataset
> >lock
> >ed when
> >doing a DBPUT or DBDELETE?
>
> For detail sets at least, you can use item level locking (the MODE 6 stuff
> you describe) for puts and deletes as well as updates I believe.  You can
> place an item lock on an entry that does not yet exist before doing a put.
>
> For master sets, I think you are required to have the whole set locked for
> puts and deletes, because other unrelated records may be moved as a side effect
> of adding or deleting records.
>
> GavinI should have mentioned in my original post that I was talking about master datasets. It
seems that there IS no way to add or delete to a master dataset without using a mode 3
or 4 lock which means that no mode 5 or 6 locks can be in effect.
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