As mentioned in "Troubleshooting and Known Problems," you cannot
use OPENMODE=APPEND when writing to an existing
partitioned data set (PDS). Because of the internal processing
required to accomplish BY-group processing, you cannot use the BY group
feature of the Data Set Formatter and write to a PDS.
We realize that this limitation may cause you some problems, so we offer you the following work-around. If you have questions or problems using this work-around, please contact SAS Technical Support.
Add the following code to the top of your SAS program:
* Compress the trailing blanks from the userid *
%let prefix=%cmpres(&sysuid);
* Allocate both your sequential data set and the PDS *
filename seq "&prefix..scratch.seq" lrecl=255 recfm=v
disp=(new,delete,delete);
filename pds "&prefix..pds(member)" lrecl=255 recfm=v dsorg=po
disp=(new,catlg,delete);
Put your entire SAS program after the above code. Add the following code after your SAS program:
* Copy the sequential data set to your PDS *
data _null_; infile seq; file pds; input; put _infile_; run;