Problem Note 54940: In SAS® 9.4 on UNIX, a fatal error occurs when using the FILENAME PIPE engine to ftp a file with RECFM=S370VB
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If you attempt to use a FILENAME statement in SAS 9.4 to ftp a file that contains variable blocked and binary data from a z/OS environment to a UNIX environment, an error similar to the following occurs:
ERROR: Invalid record detected. FATAL: Unrecoverable I/O error detected in the execution of the DATA step program. Aborted during the EXECUTION phase.
Or this:
ERROR: Could not read record descriptor.
The same program code runs successfully in SAS® 9.2 and in SAS® 9.3.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M2 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/R19.html#54940
If you attempt to use a FILENAME statement in SAS 9.4 to ftp a file that contains variable blocked and binary data from z/OS to a UNIX environment, an error occurs.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2015-01-06 18:27:53 |
| Date Created: | 2015-01-06 17:52:07 |