Usage Note 18263: PROC CONVERT may generate "Read Access Violation" errors when referencing
SPSS system files
The SPSS engine and PROC CONVERT may generate "read access violation"
errors as seen below if the file is a system file from SPSS.
SPSS system files are usually identified by their .SAV extension.
ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task [ CONVERT )
Exception occurred at (03B1409B)
Task Traceback
Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
03B1409B 06F0EFE8 sasspss:mcn_main+0x309B
03B12A61 06F0F464 sasspss:mcn_main+0x1A61
ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task [ DATASTEP )
Exception occurred at (03B1409B)
Task Traceback
Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)
03B1409B 06F0F21C sasspss:mcn_main+0x309B
PROC CONVERT and the SPSS engine were developed to import SPSS portable
files. Some portable files have been incorrectly named with the .sav
extension. If this is the case, PROC CONVERT (and the SPSS engine) will
successfully import the file.
Support for SPSS system files has been added to PROC IMPORT and EXPORT
beginning in SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 3.
Sample PROC IMPORT statements to convert the SPSS system file to a SAS
data set may be found below.
PROC IMPORT
DATAFILE='C:\spssfile.sav'
OUT=WORK.testspss
DBMS=SAV REPLACE;
RUN;
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 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.
PROC CONVERT may generate "Read Access Violation" errors when referencing
SPSS system files.
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> LIBNAME Engines
Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> External Databases ==> SPSS
|
| Date Modified: | 2006-08-22 13:41:40 |
| Date Created: | 2006-08-10 19:36:08 |
