>Jim,
>Is it ever possible to get stuck in a loop waiting for rlock()?
>
>DO WHILE NOT RLOCK()
>ENDDO
>
>Should there be some escape code here in case it can't lock or will it always eventually lock? Thanks for your help.

Marcus,

The only thing ever trying to lock that table is the unique key generation routine. You could write code to deal with an unvailable lock, but in the years I've been doing this way it has never locked up on me.