what is concurrent lock

[#1]

Can anyone educate me on the topic of concurrent lock.

Each Application seems to have a node for concurrent lock settings which can be seen in outlooksoft admin.

My guess. It determines the dimensions relevant for locking for an App.

Regards

[JHattendorf]

Concurrent locks prevent multiple users from sending data to the same intersection at the same time. For example, defining concurrent lock to include Entity, Category and Time would prevent two users from modifying data for the same entity (Local Office 1) for the same category of data (e.g. Budget) in the same period of time (e.g. 2009.JAN).

It's a database setting that can be managed in the Admin tool -- added in v5. One of the notes in this forum regarding v7 indicates that it will be managed behind the scenes in v7.

J

--- Oops... didn't see Alwin's response when I started the reply.

Edited by: Jeff Hattendorf (Akili) on Jul 15, 2008 4:59 PM

[Former Member]

Make sense.

In SAP world we can specify infoObjects that are relevant for locking meaning one person can only modify the intersection of its value. This can be done thru rsplse.This was my thought process when I asked the question.

Workstatus looks like Data slices in SAP world.