>It could also be reserved on the same system.

But this would not block access from the same system, so START PENDING
does not apply here. Of course, there can be contention by means of an 
ENQueue, but that would just block a task long before an I/O is even
started.

Peter Hunkeler
Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland

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