Problem Note 20683: SAS® software becomes unresponsive when you use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
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When using DDE to communicate between SAS and Microsoft Office products, SAS can become unresponsive if you execute a FILE or INFILE statement in the DATA step. When this occurs, SAS must be closed.
The following code examples show how this problem can occur:
FILENAME xldata DDE 'Excel|[book1.xls]Sheet1!R1C1:R2C4';
data _null_;
infile xldata;
run;
FILENAME cmds DDE 'Excel|System';
data _null_;
file cmds;
run;
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
A fix for this issue for SAS 9.1.3 (English) is available in the latest BASE SAS Hot Fix Bundle for Windows:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/ve9bx.html| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Data Management ==> Access ==> External I/O |
| Date Modified: | 2011-01-13 09:40:32 |
| Date Created: | 2007-07-27 14:31:53 |