45362 - Intermittent errors reported in client session running a DISPLAY LIBRARY _ALL

Problem Note 45362: Intermittent errors reported in client session running a DISPLAY LIBRARY _ALL_ statement to a SAS/SHARE® Server

If you execute the statement DISPLAY LIBRARY _ALL_ in an OPERATE procedure (PROC), a problem might occur: It is possible that the report returned to the SASLOG might show blank or garbage values, with or without an error message.

The following is one example, but sometimes all library names appear normal except for the last entry, which is blank:

                        NUMBER                                
LIBREF      STATUS      OF USERS    LIBRARY NAME              
--------------------------------------------------------------
            ACTIVE         1        SASLIB.SAS.V8.SASDATA      
            ACTIVE         4        øøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøø  
            ACTIVE         4        øøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøø  
            ACTIVE         4        øøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøø  
            ACTIVE         4        øøøøøøøø         END;     
            ACTIVE         4        øøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøøø  
            ACTIVE         4        Qºrc = where(W5102T11,'U  
            ACTIVE         4         .& .-~cEND;&.õ& .-QcEND  
            ACTIVE         4         .& .-McEND;&.ä-D& .-&.   
            ACTIVE         4        õ& .-~gELSE DO;&.         
            ACTIVE         4        'UNDO');&. .& .-fRETURN;  
            ACTIVE         4        &. .-&. .-Jºrc = where(W  
            ACTIVE         4        .-&. .-fGETROW:&. .-&. .  
            ACTIVE         5        ELOBS(W5102T11);&. .& .-  
            ACTIVE         4        TCHOBS(W5102T11,_currow_  
            ACTIVE         4        .þ_msg_=sysmsg();&. .& .  
            ACTIVE         5                                  
                                                              
ERROR: A bug in SAS has been encountered. Please call your SAS representative and report the 
       following message: 
OPRXSPN: FMT ERROR IN SERVER REPLY AT POSITION 780.

The problem occurs only when the same user-defined libraries are allocated through the SAS/SHARE Server by multiple clients. If the initial client for the user-defined library ends its connection to the SAS/SHARE Server for the library while it is still ACTIVE to other clients, then this problem could occur.

Note that this problem does not affect the functionality of the server, only the contents of the output from the DISPLAY LIBRARY _ALL_ command.

To circumvent this issue, you can require that all libraries managed by the SAS/SHARE Server be administrator libraries. An administrator library is a library that is under the control of the SAS/SHARE Server through the ALLOCATE LIBRARY command of PROC OPERATE. To restrict users from creating user-defined libraries to the SAS/SHARE Server, the Server should be started with the NOALLOC option. After you set this option on your server, if a client attempts to allocate a library dynamically, they see this message:

You cannot assign library 'NONSHARE.ADMIN.LIBRARY' because the NOALLOC option
is in effect for server serverid.                                          
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

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Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS/SHARE	z/OS		9.4 TS1M0
		OpenVMS VAX		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64		9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional		9.4 TS1M0
		Windows Vista		9.4 TS1M0
		Windows Vista for x64		9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX		9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX		9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris		9.4 TS1M0
		ABI+ for Intel Architecture		9.4 TS1M0
		AIX		9.4 TS1M0
		HP-UX		9.4 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF		9.4 TS1M0
		IRIX		9.4 TS1M0
		Linux		9.4 TS1M0
		Linux for x64		9.4 TS1M0
		Linux on Itanium		9.4 TS1M0
		OpenVMS Alpha		9.4 TS1M0
		OpenVMS on HP Integrity		9.4 TS1M0
		Solaris		9.4 TS1M0
		Solaris for x64		9.4 TS1M0
		Tru64 UNIX		9.4 TS1M0

* 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.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high

Date Modified:	2012-05-02 08:52:50
Date Created:	2012-01-11 12:58:15

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Problem Note 45362: Intermittent errors reported in client session running a DISPLAY LIBRARY _ALL_ statement to a SAS/SHARE® Server

Operating System and Release Information