Under certain conditions, your SAS^® session might stop responding when you create an index for a Base engine data set. This can occur when the data set contains a very large number of observations and the index has a very wide total length.

The problem occurs when the length of the index multiplied by the number of observations exceeds two gigabytes.

There is currently no circumvention for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.4 TS1M2	9.4 TS1M3

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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Creating a wide index on a large data set can cause your SAS session to stop responding in 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating environments.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high

Date Modified:	2015-04-02 14:38:39
Date Created:	2015-03-13 16:46:19