In SAS^® 9.3, when the ODS output destination is full, the task goes into a loop.

This problem can be identified by the following conditions.

The SASLOG shows ERROR messages like the following and the task is still clocking CPU usage:

From the job, log messages such as the following also indicate a space problem:

In the above, ods.output.dest.dsname(member) is the name of the output destination file.

If the problem is not noticed right away, the task might fail due to CPU time-out.

In SAS^®9, due to threaded kernel architecture, SAS runs as a BPX thread. Certain system failures arise as system abend code EC6, and the Reason Code identifies the specific reason. A Reason Code FD1D is a CPU time-out.

To circumvent the problem, increase the space allocation for the ODS output destination file.

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Operating System and Release Information

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