A segmentation violation error might occur in SAS Scalable Performance Data Server if your SAS program references a column that contains the DATE. format.

Attempts to use the DATE. format might generate errors like the following:

ERROR:  An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:

The SAS task name is [DATASETS]
Segmentation Violation

Click the Full Code tab in this SAS Note to see an example of code that produces the errors.

To circumvent this issue, change the DATE. format to use the default DATE7. width (7).

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

%let dom=spds52;
%let host=myhost.domain;
%let portno=5200;


libname foo sasspds "&dom" host="&host" serv="&portno" user='anonymous' IP=YES LIBGEN=YES;

data foo.TBL(drop=i);
  format ultimo_dt date.;
      do i=1 to 10;
       ultimo_dt=int(ranuni(0)*60);
      output;
      end;
run;



proc sql;

   create index ultimo_dt on foo.TBL (ultimo_dt);
quit;


ODS LISTING CLOSE;
ODS OUTPUT enginehost=work.mem_enginehost;
proc datasets lib=foo nolist;
 contents data=TBL (verbose=yes);
quit;

ODS OUTPUT CLOSE;
ODS LISTING;

A fix for this issue for SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 5.3 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 5.2 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 5.1 is available at: