When you define a library in your SAS^® Metadata Repository using the SAS Data in HDFS Library template and you subsequently try to use that library in a client application that assigns the library using the META engine, the library fails to be assigned. When that happens, errors similar to the following occur:

2    libname airhdfs meta library='Airline HDFS';
ERROR 23-7: Invalid value for the PATH option.
ERROR 22-7: Invalid option name USER.
ERROR 23-7: Invalid value for the INSTALL option.
ERROR 22-7: Invalid option name /.
ERROR 22-7: Invalid option name ..
ERROR: Libname AIRHDFS is not assigned.

These errors occur because the META engine does not properly embed the options within quotation marks in the underlying LIBNAME statement, as shown in this example:

However, the META engine should generate this LIBNAME statement:

The only circumvention for this problem is to pre–assign the library using the native SASHDAT engine instead of the META engine in the LIBNAME statement.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.3_M2 is available at: