When you use the META LIBNAME engine to reference a table that is associated with a library, errors might be produced. For the third maintenance release of SAS^® 9.2 (TS2M3), the error might be similar to the following:

ERROR:  Read Access Violation In Task [ CONTENTS ]
Exception occurred at (6351EBA1)
Task Traceback
Address   Frame     (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
6351EBA1  0ABCD03C  sasiomet:mcn_main+0xDBA1
6351C689  0ABCD080  sasiomet:mcn_main+0xB689
...
7C80B713  0ABCFFEC  kernel32:GetModuleFileNameA+0x1B4 

For SAS^® 9.3 (TS1M0), the error might be similar to the following:

ERROR:  An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback
information:

The SAS task name is [CONTENTS]
ERROR:  Read Access Violation CONTENTS
Exception occurred at (066B0FA1)
Task Traceback
Address   Frame     (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
00000000066B0FA1  000000003028B110  sasiomet:tkvercn1+0xFF61
00000000066AE15A  000000003028B190  sasiomet:tkvercn1+0xD11A
...
000000007786652D  000000003028FF58  kernel32:BaseThreadInitThunk+0xD
0000000077AFC521  000000003028FF88  ntdll:RtlUserThreadStart+0x21

In addition, the SAS log can contain errors. The log might contain errors similar to either of the ones shown below:

Error 1

The open data operation failed. 
The following error occured. 
[Error] IOM call failed.)

Error 2

These errors are produced when the Additional Table Options field is deleted. Even though the value in the field is deleted, the Additional Table Options field remains in metadata with an empty value, causing the errors to be produced for the table. This situation only happens when the table is associated with a library that uses the META engine.

To remove the Additional Table Options field from table in Metadata, follow the instructions listed below:

1. In SAS^® Management Console, right-click the table and select Properties.
2. In the Properties dialog box, click the Physical Storage tab. Then click the Table Options button to open the Table Options dialog box.
3. In the Additional Table Options text box, enter some placeholder text.
4. Click OK to exit the Table Options dialog box. Then click OK again to save the action and exit the Properties dialog box.
5. In SAS Management Console, right-click the table again and select Properties.
6. In the Properties dialog box, click the Physical Storage tab. Then click Table Options to open the Table Options dialog box.
7. Next to the Additional Table Options text box, click Reset.
8. In the General section, click the Reset to defaults link.
9. Click OK to exit the Table Options dialog box. Then click OK again to save the action and exit the Properties dialog box.

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