>The reason I used the LOCK to prevent updates to this CATALOG because it is >shared.
That's not the purpose of LOCK. It's for recovery/operational purposes, IIRC. - 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