I am using SAS 9.4 in a client server model. The sas jobs execute on Unix server. There can be many users who can open a dataset for viewing.   Now, when some one opens it for even viewing , and forgets to close it, my job fails when it tries to update those datasets. Is there any way we can force to update those datasets without the jobs failing ? Also is there any way if we can know if a dataset is open on someone's workstation?   ... View more