>So how is MVS supposed to distinguish between an instance of someone who >shouldn't be editing the data or has no intention of saving vs. someone who is >editing critical changes that must be saved before the next remote GET should >be allowed
Can't do it. Using EDIT as BROWSE is an educational issue. Step 1: if the user shouldn't be reading/editing, block it with your ESM. Step 2: teach your users to use BROWSE (or, gasp, VIEW) to browse and EDIT to edit. (It's the old: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this" -- "Then STOP doing that") - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

