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Problem Note 20562: PROC APPEND step may damage BASE data set
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If PROC APPEND is used to update the same BASE data set more than once, the BASE data set may become damaged. The APPEND step will not generate errors, but any step used to modify the BASE data set later will result in the following error:
ERROR: Attempt to reference a page past end-of-file on
<lib>.<dsn>.DATA
To circumvent the problem, add the option APPENDVER=V6 to the second APPEND step, as in the following example:
proc append base=base data=data appendver=v6;
run;
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 | ||