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Problem Note 48517: Utility file error may occur with large data sets and the SURVIVAL= option on the OUTPUT statement
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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
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| 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 | ||