When you launch a SAS^® session, SAS checks the directory designated by the SASUSER system option (by default, the location of the directory is ~/sasuser.v94) to determine whether it is possible to write to the Registry file (regstry.sas7bitm). If it is not possible, SAS issues the following messages:

   NOTE: Unable to open SASUSER.REGSTRY. WORK.REGSTRY will be opened instead.
   NOTE: All registry changes will be lost at the end of the session.

SAS also checks to determine whether the Registry file can be read. If the Registry file is readable, SAS copies the existing Registry settings to WORK.REGSTRY so that the current settings will be in place for the new SAS session. If the Registry file is not readable, then SAS creates a new WORK.REGSTRY file with default settings and issues the following message in addition to the 2 messages above:

   WARNING: Unable to copy SASUSER registry to WORK registry. Because of this, 
            you will not see registry customizations during this session.

To troubleshoot this problem, see SAS Note 13838.

For information about a similar message, see Usage Note 13803: "NOTE: Unable to open SASUSER.PROFILE. WORK.PROFILE will be opened instead" in UNIX environments.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux on Itanium	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Solaris for x64	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4

* 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.

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An explanation of why this note is written to the SAS log file, and how you can prevent it.

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:

Date Modified:	2019-08-08 16:12:20
Date Created:	2002-09-25 16:23:33