>Network has to keep track of your locks, so it has to store them
>somewhere. There _is_ some limit to it, I think it's user-level in
>Novell. Just check it with your supervisor - I fail to remember how it
>goes for 3.12, in 4.x you'd have to start NetAdmin or NWAdmin and change
>settings for your account. Still, there'd have to be some limit, if not
>500 or 1500, then 2000 or 3000.
>
>Seems to be that changing the user settings won't do you much good - at
>user's site you may not have the ability to change them, so you'd better
>work around it.

I took a look on our server and found the setting. For 3.12 the maximum number of record locks per connection is from 500 to 10000. With the default being 500. If you use the SET command from the console you can display all the different settings.

Thanks for your help,
Shane