Problem Note 48517: Utility file error may occur with large data sets and the SURVIVAL= option on the OUTPUT statement
A utility file error, such as "invalid position" may occur in PROC PHREG with very large data sets and the SURVIVAL= option on the OUTPUT statement.
There is no circumvention for this problem in the affected releases. However, this problem is fixed in SAS/STAT 12.1 which correspond to the SAS9.3 (TS1M2) release of SAS.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | z/OS | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| OS/2 | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.1 TS1M0 | |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| AIX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| HP-UX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| IRIX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Solaris | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
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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.
A utility file error, such as "invalid position" may occur in PROC PHREG with very large data sets and the SURVIVAL= option on the OUTPUT statement.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Analytics ==> Survival Analysis
SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> PHREG
SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> TPHREG
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| Date Modified: | 2012-11-26 07:54:10 |
| Date Created: | 2012-11-20 12:45:46 |
