>>From Help on Use: "When you open a table again in another work area, the table in the new work area takes on the attributes of the table in the original work area. For example, if a table is opened for read-only or exclusive access and is opened again in another work area, the table is opened for read-only or exclusive access in the new work area." Could that be relevant here?
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>Nope. It is not (yet) open in the same session. It is a multi-user issue.

#1 Same process rather then same DATASESSION?
#2 can you check what process is locking? There are tools that can do that (I would need to google so I leave it to you)