Problem Note 14318: PROC TRANSPOSE fails with "WRITE ERROR"
If PROC TRANSPOSE is run with a BY and ID statement, and if any BY group
contains more than 32768 values, the following error will be generated.
ERROR: WRITE ERROR encountered while attempting to write to utility
file
The current circumvention is to divide the data set into smaller parts,
and transpose those parts individually.
A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_prod_list.html#014318
For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
fix should be downloaded from:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_dbcs_prod_list.html#014318
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP2 |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> TRANSPOSE
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| Date Modified: | 2005-04-08 15:17:36 |
| Date Created: | 2005-01-21 15:44:40 |
