Problem:

How to set the OPENINPUTSHARED configuration option?  I found this option in the documentation but could not find where it is set. Having the problem where two programmers are trying to open the same files as INPUT at the same time and are getting errors.  If there is a better way to do this or this option will not work?

Resolution:

In the extfh.cfg,this is where you set

openinputshared=ON

Example,

set EXTFH=c:\\mydir\\test.cfg

This sets the environment variable EXTFH to the external file handler configuration filename to c:\\mydir\\test.cfg.

The File Handler configuration file enables you to alter File Handler parameters for individual files, or for all files. Settings which apply to all files are listed under the tag:

[XFH-DEFAULT]

OPENINPUTSHARED=ON

While settings which apply to an individual file are listed under the individual filename, for example:

[TEST.DAT]

OPENINPUTSHARED=ON