Filenolockwait
In SAS one can define a libname as follows:
libname dm "/myfolder" filelockwait=10;
The nolockwait makes SAS wait up to 10 seconds with reading or writing to a sas dataset in that libname if the dataset is locked.
My experience with SAS is that this can occur if one has a loop i=1 to N where one appends small datasets to a masterdata. Then in practise the "masterdata" can be locked by process at stage i=j-1 when starting step i=j (perhaps because if it is some latency on the server or network or something else).
The filelockwait makes the process wait and the lock error does not appear.
But it seems that Altair does not support the filelockwait. Does this problem not occur in Altair? Or can I expect the problem to occur in Altair, and what to do then?
Altair Employee