Problem Note 18912: READ ACCESS VIOLATION when creating a Scalable Performance Data Engine LIBNAME with more than 256 characters in the DATAPATH option
A READ ACCESS VIOLATION error is generated for libraries with datapath
entries that have long directory paths or a large number of directory paths. Any option (DATAPATH, INDEXPATH or METAPATH) has a limit of 256 bytes, including quotes.
----- Sample Log ----------------------
21 libname SPDeWork SPDE "C:\temp\spdedata"
22 datapath=(
23 'C:\temp\spdedata\data1'
24 'C:\temp\spdedata\data2'
25 'C:\temp\spdedata\data3'
26 'C:\temp\spdedata\data4'
27 'C:\temp\spdedata\data5'
28 'C:\temp\spdedata\data6'
29 'C:\temp\spdedata\data7'
30 'C:\temp\spdedata\data8'
ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task [ Submit )
Exception occurred at (677F18FC)
Task Traceback
Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
677F18FC 27323161 sasyhl:mcn_main+0x8FC
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Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | N/A | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 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: | Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> SPDE (Scalable Performance Data Engine)
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| Date Modified: | 2010-11-04 15:15:00 |
| Date Created: | 2006-11-03 16:07:42 |