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Problem Note 43881: Submitting ODS HTML code to SAS® might result in a "Read access violation error in TASK [SASVODSV]" error
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In certain situations, submitting code to SAS® that uses the ODS HTML statement might result in the following error message being written to the SAS Log:
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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.
Error: Read access violation in TASK [SASVODSV]
This problem typically occurs when running SAS® 9.2 on a 64-bit Windows machine.
To circumvent the problem, include the following OPTIONS statement at the top of your code:
options helpbrowser=sas;
For more information about the HELPBROWSER system option, refer to SAS Note 34036.
Another circumvention for the problem is to include the following ODS statement at the top of your SAS code:
ods results off;
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | N/A | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||