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Overview

Lock Monitor is a real-time monitor used to display the current status of locks held for areas and terminals in a CA IDMS central version. Its displays are refreshable and pageable on any 3270-type device supported by CA IDMS.

You can use Lock Monitor to display and react to locks being held for an area or by a terminal. You can also use Lock Monitor to free locks so that you can change states for an area.

The most common use of Lock Monitor is to resolve the situation created when a DCMT VARY AREA command is issued and the target area goes into a quiescing state. In this state, the area will not change to the desired mode, and no new work is allowed to access the area. Using the Lock Monitor command set, you can resolve the situation without having to cycle the CA IDMS central version. The Lock Monitor task code is LOCKMON.