topic Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK. in New SAS User

SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

zhbin — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 03:35:15 GMT

I use SAS University Edition on my Mac.

I am running a big file about 27G now. My code run well yesterday when dealing with a 24G big data file.

Here is my code: (hg01merged is the input big data)

libname HG '/folders/myfolders/';
options user = HG;

proc sort tagsort data=_temp0.hg01merged out=hg.newmm reverse;
by party_id company country exp_imp shipment tel;
run;

Today I encounter this problem but it worked well yesterday.

ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.'SASTMP-000000031'n.UTILITY.

ERROR: File WORK.'SASTMP-000000031'n.UTILITY is damaged. I/O processing did not complete.

I tried reinstall the SAS U Edition as mentioned here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/ERROR-Insufficient-space-in-file-WORK-SASTMP-000000096-n-UTILITY/td-p/406784

But it does not work.

The remaining space in my share folder is about 152G on my Mac which should be enough. Can anyone help me out of this? Thank you so much.

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 06:02:34 GMT

University Edition is a learning tool with limited internal space, and since WORK is inside the virtual machine, it is limited.

At some point, even the tagsort utility file will exceed that limit.

Try to assign a USER library on your shared folder (if USER is present, SAS will use it instead of WORK).

Are you sure that what you do does not violate the UE license agreement?

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

zhbin — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:36:28 GMT

I already assign the user, but it's so strange the error shows that it was working on WORK library.

options user = '/folders/myfolders/';

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 06:24:17 GMT

Create a directory, and use it in a libname:

libname user '/folders/myfolders/user';

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

zhbin — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:35:22 GMT

It doesn't help. The error still exists.

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:46:11 GMT

Then you will have to reduce your data. Proof of concept or examples for learning do not need overly large data.

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

zhbin — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:53:19 GMT

It's truly for study usage. I am writing my academic paper which has to process such large data.

Re: SAS U Edition. ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:42:30 GMT

In that case, your tutors need to get you a SAS On Demand for Academics access, where such data sizes can be processed; or they give you an account for the university's SAS environment.

You cannot do this with the locally installed SAS UE.