20351 - Support added for SPD Server START/ENDOBS LIBNAME options with values larger than 2G

Usage Note 20351: Support added for SPD Server START/ENDOBS LIBNAME options with values larger than 2G

Prior to SPD Server 4.4 TSM2, STARTOBS/ENDOBS values larger than 2G caused values to resolve to negative numbers.

This caused problems with parallel joins because STARTOBS/ENDOBS values are used to bracket sections of the table to join in parallel. Negative values cause the join to fail.

Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SPDS	Scalable Performance Data Server	Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		Solaris	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		Solaris for x64	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		Linux on Itanium	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		HP-UX	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		HP-UX IPF	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		64-bit Enabled AIX	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	4.4		9.1 TS1M3
		AIX	4.4		9.1 TS1M3

* 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.

A fix for this issue for SPD Server 4.4 is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/spds44.html#020351

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:
Topic:	System Administration ==> Servers ==> SPDS

Date Modified:	2007-06-21 15:35:07
Date Created:	2007-06-06 16:20:30