topic Re: ERROR Insufficient Space in SAS Programming

ERROR Insufficient Space

mstjean — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 05:20:18 GMT

How should I go about to resolving the below error:

Insufficient space in file WORK.CONSOLIDATEDEXTRACT.DATA. ERROR: File WORK.CONSOLIDATEDEXTRAC

Many thanks

Re: ERROR Insufficient Space

ChrisNZ — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 06:29:01 GMT

The message is clear: You don't have enough disk space.

Your options are numerous and include: delete files on the disk, compress your datasets, remove unneeded datasets from the WORK library, remove unneeded variables and observations from the data set.

As you don't give any context, it's hard to tell you more. If this is a proc sort, you could possibly use the TAGSORT option.

Re: ERROR Insufficient Space

SASKiwi — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:12:04 GMT

You had the same problem 2 days ago: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Error-during-quot-proc-sort-quot-step/m-p/745061#M233510

Same solution applies.

Re: ERROR Insufficient Space

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:34:49 GMT

The context is important. Does it happen in a data step, the SQL procedure, a SORT or any other procedure that creates a dataset.
So please post the complete log of that step, including all code and all messages.

Re: ERROR Insufficient Space

Sajid01 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:50:29 GMT

Hello @mstjean
Agreeing with what all others have said, I have seen this occur for various reason.
Whenever you have this error, do contact you SAS Administrator