Problem Note 59529: Remote Library Services library allocation fails with "ERROR: Invalid libref..."
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In SAS® 9.3 TS1M2 and later releases, a Remote Library Services (RLS) library allocation fails under the following conditions:
- The remote library on the SAS server is part of a library concatenation.
- One of the libraries in the concatenation is using the META engine.
When you encounter this problem, you see the following error:
ERROR: Invalid libref LOCAL.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
Here is an example of code that produces this problem:
SIGNON RHOST;
RSUBMIT;
LIBNAME REMMETA META LIBRARY=TEST;
LIBNAME RCONCAT(REMMETA);
ENDRSUBMIT;
RSUBMIT;
LIBNAME REMMETA META LIBRARY=TEST;
LIBNAME RCONCAT(REMMETA);
ENDRSUBMIT;
LIBNAME LOCAL SLIBREF=RCONCAT SERVER=RHOST;
A temporary workaround is to assign the SLIBREF= parameter directly to the libref using the META engine.
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 | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| z/OS 64-bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows Vista | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Linux | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.3_M2 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M4 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A3Z.html#59529A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M3 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/V01.html#59529
Remote Library Services library allocation fails when the allocation is to a libref that is part of a library concatenation using the META engine.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2017-02-14 11:35:21 |
| Date Created: | 2016-12-14 13:32:42 |