Problem Note 38791: ERROR: "The metadata for the table/view libref.tablename does not exist"
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If you assign a library using the META engine on the LIBNAME statement, and you have previously run the %OMABAKUP macro with the RUNANALYSIS=YES parameter or have used the %OMARUNAN macro, you might suddenly begin seeing errors like the following when you try to access a table in the library:
ERROR: File libref.tablename.DATA does not exist.
ERROR: The metadata for the table/view libref.tablename does not exist.
ERROR: The metadata for the table/view libref.tablename does not exist.
This occurs even though you could previously access the table successfully.
To circumvent the problem, you must restart the SAS® Metadata Server. However, this circumvention is likely to be temporary, as the problem can occur again at any time.
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 | SAS Metadata Server | z/OS | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M1 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A50.html#38791
Data sets in a library allocated with the META LIBNAME engine sporadically produce an error that the metadata does not exist.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Data Management ==> Access ==> Client/Server Data Management ==> Access ==> SAS I/O Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> Metadata |
| Date Modified: | 2010-02-19 09:43:03 |
| Date Created: | 2010-02-18 13:18:55 |