SUPPORT / SAMPLES & SAS NOTES
 

Support

Problem Note 63721: You encounter a segmentation violation in the SAS DATASTEP task when you use SAS® Fraud Management on the z64 platform

DetailsHotfixAboutRate It

You might encounter a segmentation violation with the DATASTEP task under z/OS when SAS runs in 64-bit mode. In this scenario, you see messages similar to the following in the SASLOG:

ERROR:  An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
The SAS task name is .DATASTEP.
Segmentation Violation
Traceback of the Exception:                                                   
abendcd.. 000c4000                                                            
psw...... 21f412d2 module... UNKNOWN                                          
function. tktracex offset... e2bc40c8 line.....                               
Traceback called........                                                      
Module   Interrupt      Offset   Line   Function                              
-------- -------------- -------- ------ ----------                            
SAS         -none-      e2bc40c8        tktracex                              
SAS         -none-      00000446    304 ht_handle_program_fault               
SAS         -none-      000000ca    102 catchpgm                              
TKMK        -none-      00000576    653 bkt_signal_handler                    
CELQLIB     -none-      00000368        CEEVBSTK                              
CELQLIB     -none-      ff9bacb0        __zerro                               
CELQLIB     -none-      00000306        __zerros                              
CELQLIB     -none-      00004468        CEEHDSP                               
CELQLIB     -none-      00000972        CEEOSIGJ                              
CELQLIB     -none-      00000266        CELQHROD                              
CELQLIB     -none-      ffd97ee6        CEEOSIGG                              
CELQLIB     -none-      00000266        CELQHROD                              
         SIGSEGV        00056072        #VGCPGM0                              
SASWGH      -none-      000000ca    146 vgexec                                
SASDSX      -none-      000000ac    454 dsxxexc                               
SASDS       -none-      0000007a     94 dsexec                                
SASDS       -none-      00001b0a   2548 sasds                                 
SAS         -none-      00000240    269 vvtentr                               
CELQLIB     -none-      0000033e        CELQUSTK       

ERROR:  An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback
information:
The SAS task name is .DATASTEP.

Illegal Instruction

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.                     

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



Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemBase SASz/OS 64-bit9.4_M39.4 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.