I have an application that uses QUERY to do file extracts and quick updates to set
status settings to new settings...it just so happens that I am updating a key and
so CIUPDATE=ON works wonderfully in that particular situation.  Could have written
a program and used the other setting, but I was in a hurry.

Leonard Berkowitz wrote:

> I understand the difference between CIUPDATE=ON and CIUPDATE=ALLOWED (a call to
> DBCONTROL mode 5). Can someone provide a scenario where the distinction is
> significant? After all the same program[mer] can convert CIUPDATE=ALLOWED to
> CIUPDATE=ON.
>
> Thanks.
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> Leonard S. Berkowitz
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