Thanks to Miguel's note, I figured out what the message means. However, I'm still struggling to deal with the problem. Perhaps someone else has run into this type of problem???
I have a web server on VM that is creating the file in BFS. (It is doing a OPENVM PUTBFS to get the file into the file system.) The CGI continues on its way and finishes with no problem. However, it looks like the file is never "closed". To anything else, including another web server, the file is "busy". So, if one of the others tries to modify the file, it cannot. If this were a straight forward CMS app, I'd do a FINIS to make sure the file was closed. However, I don't work with OE very much and have no idea if there is a way to do this in BFS. Any ideas/suggestions? Martha
