Ah-Hahhhh....
Thanks for pointing that out, Fred!
Mark

>From the help for USE:
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>AGAIN
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>To open a table concurrently in multiple work areas, you can do one of the following:
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>Select another work area and issue USE with the table name and the AGAIN clause.
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>Issue USE with the table name and the AGAIN clause, and specify a different work area with the IN clause.
>When you open a table again in another work area, the table in the new work area takes on the attributes of the table in the original work area. For example, if a table is opened for read-only or exclusive access and is opened again in another work area, the table is opened for read-only or exclusive access in the new work area.
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>Since the table was already open, it used it's current status of shared, even though you specified exclusive because you did a USE...AGAIN.