The TRANTAB procedure creates a translation table in the profile.sas7bcat catalog in your SASUSER data library. If the profile catalog cannot be opened for write access, you will receive an error similar to the following:

   ERROR: Cannot open entry xxxxx.TRANTAB for write access - catalog
          SASUSER.PROFILE is opened for read access.

When you invoke a SAS^® Enterprise Guide session, the options in the Lev1/SASApp/sasv9.cfg file are in effect for your session. One of the options in that file is RSASUSER. The RSASUSER option causes the SASUSER data library to be opened in read-only mode, so the TRANTAB table cannot be written to the profile.sas7bcat catalog.

It is not possible to create the translation table in a different directory.
To solve the problem, ask your SAS administrator or your UNIX system administrator to set the -NORSASUSER option as a restricted option for the userid that is used to create translation tables. The method for setting a restricted option is documented in Chapter 2 of the Configuration Guide for SAS^® 9.2 Foundation for UNIX^® Environments.

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