Save considerations when checking out objects

This topic provides information about the save considerations if you have checked out objects.

If you use System i® Navigator or the Check Out Objects (CHKOUT) command to check out objects to a specific user, you should check these objects back in before performing the save. When an object is checked out to a user, other users can read the object, but they cannot update the object. If an object remains checked out during a save that specifies update history UPDHST(*YES), message CPFA09E is sent for the object, because the update history function is unable to change the attributes for the object.