Have you asked Minisoft?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:13 AM, anne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> hp3000 Mpex 7.0
>
> I was wondering if anyone was using Minisoft ODBC and message files. We
> have numerous applications that are writing to message files via minisoft
> and
> they work perfectly.
>
> We are now attempting to read from a message file. This we can do via
> Minsoft as long as there is nothing else accessing it.
>
> We have a cobol process that writes to the message file and does an open
> extend. It writes data to the message file happily. Minisoft then goes to
> read
> the message file and is seems to "read" the data (as the no of records goes
> to
> 0) but we do not get access to the data in minisoft until we stop the cobol
> program.
>
> We are not getting access violation errors as it is reading the data and
> there
> is no locks open when I look at the message file.
>
> the file equation for the cobol program is
> File XXX;shr;msg
>
> The file equation for minisoft is
>
> File XXX;shr;msg;gmulti;acc=in
>
> Nothing else is attempting access.
>
> any ideas ?
>
> Anne
>
>
>
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