There have been several SAS notes written, which are all being resolved in one defect. This defect will change the way SAS extends volumes during multivolume processing. The following is a list of the SAS Notes associated with this defect:

• SAS Note 4916: "Preallocating dynamic multi-volume library does not support volume skipping"
• SAS Note 2674: "RLSE and PASS subparameters are not honored in Version 8"
• SAS Note 5004: "New multi-volume SAS library not found on volume when closed via LIBNAME CLEAR"
• SAS Note 2881: "Potential for corrupt multivolume SAS data library using GUARANTEED SPACE and specifying secondary space allocation"
• SAS Note 895: "SAS recovers from B37 abend extending a multivolume SAS library"
• SAS Note 4229: "SAS does not recognize AVGREC Parameter"
• SAS Note 8936: "STOPX37, SRM, and VAM will work fine if the SASIO hot fix redesign has been applied"
• SAS Note 14512: "DLINITDEFER Option Not Valid with SASIO Redesign Hot Fix"

A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.1 TSLEVEL TS1M0 for this issue is available from http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/81_sbcs_prod_list.html#005642.

A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 TSLEVEL TS2M0 for this issue is available from http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#005642.

For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), the hot fix should be downloaded from http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_dbcs_prod_list.html#005642.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.1 (TS1M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at: