SAP SHARED LOCK GLOSRY documentation, setup help and example usage

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shared lock
Lock , that allows other users to set further shared locks but no simultaneous exclusive locks for the locked data. The Open SQL statement SELECT without the addition FOR UPDATE , as well as the corresponding
Native SQL statement, do not set (by default) a corresponding database lock for the addressed lines. A shared lock is set as an SAP lock
via a correspondingly parameterized call of a lock function module .