topic Re: How To Identify Which User Is Locking a File? (A Lock Is Not Available For Dataset) in SAS Programming

How To Identify Which User Is Locking a File? (A Lock Is Not Available For Dataset)

DanielDor — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:19:58 GMT

Greetings,

1. We are trying to understand How To Identify Which User Is Locking a File? (A Lock Is Not Available For Dataset).

2. We are getting the below error:

Any Idea how to solve it?

Thanks!

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:24:20 GMT

The easiest way is to run the appropriate operating system command. On UNIX platforms this is fuser.

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:29:27 GMT

BTW if you run SAS on UNIX, there is a simple way to avoid the problem altogether by deleting the existing .sas7bdat file before recreating the dataset. See https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-Proceedings/How-to-Deal-With-Locked-Data-Sets-on-UNIX-systems/ta-p/726339