Problem Note 65561: The SAS log shows an ERROR that contains no text when the SASHOME directory is not mounted
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On z/OS systems, the SASHOME mountpoint (zFS) under OMVS is not always required. However, certain SAS functionality depends on content within the SASHOME directory. When the SAS processing must have content within SASHOME and the SASHOME file system is not mounted, an ERROR that contains no text might be written to the SAS log. In this scenario, the job terminates with one of the following:
- Return code 8
- U999 abend if the ERRORABEND option is set
Here is an example using ODS in which the file system on which SASHOME resides is not mounted:
1 FILENAME ODSOUT '.SASXXX.SAS.PDF' DISP=(MOD,DELETE);
2 FILENAME ODSOUT '.SASXXX.SAS.PDF' DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) RECFM=VB
3 LRECL=259 BLKSIZE=27998;
4 ODS PDF FILE=ODSOUT ;
ERROR: .
5 PROC TABULATE DATA=SASHELP.CARS NOSEPS;
6 CLASS MAKE;
7 TABLE MAKE,N;
8 QUIT;
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This might cause
NOTE: No observations in data set.
NOTE: The PROCEDURE TABULATE used 0.01 CPU seconds and 28658K.
2 FILENAME ODSOUT '.SASXXX.SAS.PDF' DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) RECFM=VB
3 LRECL=259 BLKSIZE=27998;
4 ODS PDF FILE=ODSOUT ;
ERROR: .
5 PROC TABULATE DATA=SASHELP.CARS NOSEPS;
6 CLASS MAKE;
7 TABLE MAKE,N;
8 QUIT;
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This might cause
NOTE: No observations in data set.
NOTE: The PROCEDURE TABULATE used 0.01 CPU seconds and 28658K.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.4 | 9.4_M7 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M7 |
| z/OS 64-bit | 9.4 | 9.4_M7 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M7 | ||
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2020-02-18 11:13:25 |
| Date Created: | 2020-02-13 11:52:02 |