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Problem Note 57818: SAS® Drug Development 4.2 - Running several Jobs with the same SAS® code might make an instance unstable
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In SAS Drug Development® 4.2 and higher, running several Jobs with the same SAS® code might make outputs unusable by other Jobs. Consider the following scenarios:
| Job Execution Scenario | Same output folder? | Same output filenames? | Same output file content? | Output files exist? | Status |
| 1 - First run | Yes | No | Yes | No | Complete |
| 1 - Second run | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Processing |
| 2 - First run | No | Yes | Yes | No | Complete |
| 2 - Second run | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Processing |
For both scenarios, users cannot run any more jobs of this same type. The Jobs stop on the last processing step. All SAS® Sessions go to idle and stay there until the instance is restarted. After the restart, the Jobs show failed.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Life Science Analytics Framework | Linux for x64 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 9.4 TS1M3 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| SAS System | SAS Drug Development | Linux for x64 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 |