BO XI 3.1 - scheduling fails for locked PDF files

Hi,
I have scheduled reports in BO XI 3.1 and instances are stored as PDF files on the BO server.
Issue I am facing : During the schedule time (daily morning), if the PDF file has been kept open by some user, the schedule fails saying the file is locked by someone else.
I am thinking of writing some scripts (.bat file) to kill the session (file open by the user) and on success of this script the BO scheduler runs.
But am wondering if there is anything in CMC/ Infoview where in we can restrict the access levels to just read and not write to the users ?
Please advice.
Thanks,
Ash

adding place holders to give different name to the PDF file is ruled out , as the users want the same name and only one copy of the file should be present at a particular time.
As suggested by Tim -
If we use a bat file to copy the file to another location (viewing location), the file can be overwritten in the original location but the bat file can not overwrite the PDF in viewing location (if the PDF is opened, during the file copy from original folder to viewing folder)
PDF files are stored in the BOBJ repository
Any other options ?
Thanks,
Ash

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