In SAS 9.4, if a member of a SAS library has a bad record length that causes a buffer overrun, the SAS session terminates with a user abend U1335.

One of the following messages might appear in your job output:

Free buffer overwritten.
ERROR: VM 1335: The PCE address= 00000000  and MEMORY address=23D907B8   
IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT                                              
USER COMPLETION CODE=1335 

USER COMPLETION CODE=1335
TIME=14.25.05  SEQ=15413  CPU=0000  ASID=0045
PSW AT TIME OF ERROR  078D1000   965CC14C  ILC 2  INTC 0D

This problem has been reported only with SAS libraries that were created with a release prior to SAS 9.4 that are being copied to a SAS 9.4 library. For example, this might occur in a program that uses PROC COPY to copy a SAS library created under SAS^® 9.1.3 into a new physical library with SAS 9.4.

To circumvent this problem, use the older release of SAS to use PROC COPY to copy the problem library into a new library. Then, under SAS 9.4, use PROC COPY to copy the library into a SAS 9.4 library.

The following example shows how you could create a SAS 9.4 SAS library using a temporary SAS library between the PROC COPY steps:

... 
//   EXEC SAS913 
//BADLIB  DD DSN=problem.sas.library,DISP=SHR
//LIB913  DD DSN=&&INTERIM,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10)),UNIT=unit,
//           DISP=(NEW,PASS) 
//SYSIN   DD * 
  proc copy in=badlib out=lib913;  
  run;  
//* 
//   EXEC SAS94 
//LIB913  DD DSN=&&INTERIM,DISP=(OLD,DELETE)
//LIB94   DD DSN=new.sas94.library,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), 
//           UNIT=unit,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10))  
//SYSIN   DD * 
  proc copy in=lib913 out=lib94;  
  run; 
/* 

A fix is planned for a future SAS release to surface the problem entry name.

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