topic Re: Write access denied but I can manually copy and paste in SAS Programming

Write access denied but I can manually copy and paste

SAShole — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:07:48 GMT

Hi SAS friends,

When I submit the code below

data Out.Test;
	set In.Test;
run;

I get this error message Write access to member Out.Test.DATA is denied

However I am able to copy and paste these datasets manually. Are there any other work arounds? I get the same error using proc copy.

EDIT: I'm running SAS EG 9.04 on UNIX

Re: Write access denied but I can manually copy and paste

JBailey — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:36:39 GMT

Hi @SAShole

If you are running SAS via a workspace server, the "userid" running the job may not have permissions to the directory specified in the LIBNAME statement.

Best wishes,
Jeff

Re: Write access denied but I can manually copy and paste

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:50:04 GMT

What operating system is SAS running on? "Overwriting" a file where you do not have write access is possible in UNIX when

you have write access to the directory
you remove the file first

Re: Write access denied but I can manually copy and paste

Tom — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:57:32 GMT

Did you define the OUT libref with the ACCESS=READONLY option?

Re: Write access denied but I can manually copy and paste

SAShole — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:09:13 GMT

Yes! and now I feel dumb!! Thanks ALOT TOM! 😉