>I want to use this commands becose many commands like APPEND BLANK lock the table or table header, and I just want lock the current record in the optimist way, and the Gather command lock just the record.
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>using Scatter and Gather commands, I have the posssibility of working with begin/end transaction, if not, how can I do it ?
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>Thanks
>Carla
Carla,

If you are worried about holding locks then you don't want transactions as they hold the locks until the endtransactioon is executed.