Problem Note 15538: PROC SORT fails when routing SORTWKxx data sets to tape
In SAS Release 8.2 TS2M0, when sorting a SAS data set and routing the
SORTWKxx data sets to tape, the sort will fail with the following error
message:
ERROR: Host sort cannot be used.
If the SORTMSG option was specified, you will also see the following
DFSORT messages in the SYSOUT dataset:
ICE802I 0 BLOCKSET TECHNIQUE IN CONTROL
ICE751I 0 C5-Q95214 C6-Q95214 C7-BASE C8-Q95214 E7-Q95214
ICE800I 0 BLOCKSET TECHNIQUE COULD NOT BE USED - REASON CODE IS 17
The problem is correct in the SAS System 9.
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Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
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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: | Common Programming Tasks ==> Sorting Data
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| Date Modified: | 2005-07-13 10:48:09 |
| Date Created: | 2005-06-15 09:38:43 |
