topic Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP in SAS Programming

WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

marysmith — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:21:09 GMT

Dear Community,

I am working with sas for months, but now this error message is showing up everytime I start my SAS 9.4.

WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP
WARNING: do not exist. These libraries were removed from the concatenation.

I also cannot import my excel sheets anymore. Does anybody know what to do and how to fix the problem?

I always get that error message when I try to import:

ERROR: Connect: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

I have a 64bit SAS and 32bit Excel btw, which may cause the Problem

Thanks 🙂

I tried both

Libname saspms "C:\PMS";


proc import out=work.datensatz
 datafile="C:\PMS\Anzeigen2.xls"
 DBMS = EXCEL;
run;

or:

Libname saspms "C:\PMS";

PROC IMPORT OUT= work.datensatz
            DATAFILE= "C:\PMS\Anzeigen2.xls" 
            DBMS=EXCELCS REPLACE;
     RANGE="Sheet1$"; 
     SCANTEXT=YES;
     USEDATE=YES;
     SCANTIME=YES;
RUN;

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

RW9 — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:11:16 GMT

Well, you would need to be more specific, run the code and show the log each time. From a look through:

- This is not used in the first part:

Libname saspms "C:\PMS";

This engine does not match the file type:

 datafile="C:\PMS\Anzeigen2.xls"
 DBMS = EXCEL;

XLS file type is old binary, and may not be the same Excel engine, so that may be causing you issues. Remove the dbms and let it choose which engine to use.

Same here, not sure excelcs should be the engine:

            DATAFILE= "C:\SAS_PMS\Datensatz_PMS.xls" 
            DBMS=EXCELCS REPLACE;

Are you sure the paths are correct as in 1:

Libname saspms "C:\PMS";

And in 2;

Libname saspms "C:\SAS_PMS";

Does one or either of those exist (and do you have write permission to them.

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

marysmith — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:21:22 GMT

Hey thanks for your quick reply.

Do you know what this error message means?
WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

WARNING: do not exist. These libraries were removed from the concatenation.

It always shows up when I open SAS.

I habe 64 bit SAS and 32 bitExcel that's why I used the DBMS, got it from a youtube video^^

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

RW9 — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:26:07 GMT

Check out the files which are run with startup like autoexec.sas. It sounds like there is a libname statement referencing folders on your computer that don't exist.

As for opening Excel 32 bit on 64 SAS, not sure that is possible. Use pcfiles, or better yet, save to CSV and read in a CSV file with proper datastep import - avoid a guessing procedure like proc import.

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

marysmith — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:27:22 GMT

Ok thanks!
Check out the files which are run with startup like autoexec.sas.

How to do that?

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

RW9 — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:35:17 GMT

Been a while since I have used desktop SAS. It is a SAS file which should be in the SAS install location which is run as the system starts up. Search for autoexec.sas. You want to see any line in there which has network or local paths.

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:09:38 GMT

Looks like you have a damaged SAS installation; SASHELP is spread over several directories, and part of them are missing.

Look in sasv9.cfg for the paths that constitute SASHELP, and see what's missing, so you can restore it from the backup.

Re: WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP

Pradeep_R — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:14:29 GMT

WARNING: One or more libraries specified in the concatenated library SASHELP
WARNING: do not exist. These libraries were removed from the concatenation.

To remove the warning message that appears when you launch SAS, go to the "nls" folder on your PC, folder path - "C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\nls".

Locate the "SASCFG" folder in one of the folders present in the "nls" folder. Copy it and paste it into the "en" folder. To do so, you must have administrative rights.

When you reopen SAS, the warning message will no longer appear in the log.