Usage Note 32991: Opening a data set from a SAS® Universal Viewer workspace results in an error: "Unable to open DATASET_NAME. Operation not allowed in this context."
Attempting to open a data set from a SAS Universal Viewer workspace results in the following error message:
Unable to open <dataset_name>.
Operation is not allowed in this context.
This message occurs when Performance options in the Universal Viewer have a value of 0.
To open datasets from this workspace successfully:
- Go to Tools ► Options ► Performance options.
- Enter numbers greater than zero in the Only use paging if the dataset contains this many rows and the Number of rows per page text boxes.
- Click OK.
- Open the data set.
- Save the workspace before exiting the SAS Universal Viewer.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | N/A | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
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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.
| Date Modified: | 2008-10-21 14:20:21 |
| Date Created: | 2008-08-15 14:19:54 |