Incorrect or missing character data or incorrect numeric data might result when using Cross Environment Data Access (CEDA) to create or read an extremely wide data set on a 32-bit operating system when the data set was created on a 64-bit operating system. This problem is most likely to occur when the data set contains extremely wide observations where there are more than 524,287 occurrences of a given type and size of a column.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	z/OS	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		OpenVMS VAX	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		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 TS1M0
		Windows Millennium Edition (Me)	8.1 TS1M0
		ABI+ for Intel Architecture	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		AIX	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		HP-UX	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		IRIX	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		OpenVMS Alpha	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Solaris	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Tru64 UNIX	8.1 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0

* 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.

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A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:

http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#40438

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Incorrect or missing character data or incorrect numeric data might result when using Cross Environment Data Access (CEDA) to create or read an extremely wide data set on a 32-bit operating system when the data set was created on a 64-bit operating system.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high
Topic:	Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> CEDA (Cross-environment Data Access)

Date Modified:	2010-08-03 08:22:40
Date Created:	2010-07-23 21:42:15