topic Re: A Lock is not available.. in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/99001#M8846 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Use SAS/SHARE, this way you can have concurrent updates to the same file.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps,</P><P>Ahmed</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:17:39 GMT AhmedAl_Attar 2013-06-07T11:17:39Z A Lock is not available.. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/98999#M8844 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> HI.</P><P></P><P>I'm trying to run a data set and someone else ran it, what we're trying to do is "kick" one another from the file and write over each others work. The error message we're getting is:</P><P> - A lock is not available for XXX.XX.Data</P><P></P><P> - Lock held by process 8010</P><P></P><P>is there a way around this or a way to overwrite his data without getting that error?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:56:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/98999#M8844 Johan 2013-06-07T10:56:03Z Re: A Lock is not available.. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/99000#M8845 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If this is running on unix you need to kill the process by assigning command kill and process id.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:09:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/99000#M8845 manojinpec 2013-06-07T11:09:55Z Re: A Lock is not available.. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/99001#M8846 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Use SAS/SHARE, this way you can have concurrent updates to the same file.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps,</P><P>Ahmed</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:17:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/A-Lock-is-not-available/m-p/99001#M8846 AhmedAl_Attar 2013-06-07T11:17:39Z