32778 - A 413-18 abend might occur if you create a new library on tape in SAS® 9.2 Phase 1

Problem Note 32778: A 413-18 abend might occur if you create a new library on tape in SAS® 9.2 Phase 1

In SAS 9.2 Phase 1, your job might abend and cause an error to occur when you allocate a tape data set in Job Control Language (JCL).

The JCL that causes this error will be similar to the following:

//MYTAPE DD DSN=TAPEDS.TEST.TAPE,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=3590-1

The error message that results will be similar to the following:

IEC145I 413-18,IFG0194A,TAPEDD,V921M0,MYTAPE,0470,,TAPEDS.TEST2.TAPE

The following error messages might also appear in the SAS log:

ERROR: OPEN of MYTAPE   failed. Abend code 413. Return code 18.
ERROR: An I/O error has occurred on file MYTAPE.

To circumvent this problem, be very explicit when you identify the engine with which the library should be assigned, as in the following example:

libname mytape tape;

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

* 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 SAS 9.2 (TS1M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.2 (TS1M0) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at:

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2008-10-08 09:16:43
Date Created:	2008-07-24 12:05:12