Cameron, I'ld never thought I would once say this, but if your students need simultanious write access to a CMS formatted disk (MW link), then ISPF is the way to synchronise the various users and allows updating multiple files on the same disk. (Given that you work on only a single lpar, so that ISPVM can talk to all users of the disk). If you have the option, I would advise to use SFS, much easier, file level control and works across lpars, both in an SSI cluster and/or via APPC/VM connections.
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