I think that you need a dbcontrol set to turn CIupdate on.

Not sure what that setting is, though.

Later.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Phillips [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 1998 2:08 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      CIUPDATE
>
> Okay, I have a data base that has CIUPDATE allowed according to
> DBUTIL.  But when I try to DBUPDATE when changing a search item
> in a detail data set, I still get error 41 "DBUPDATE attempted to
> modify the value of a critical item--key, search or sort".
>
> Is there something else/more/special I need to do to make this
> work?  A special mode perhaps?
>
> Thanks.
>
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