topic Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist in SAS Programming

ERROR: Physical file does not exist

Grumbler — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:26:56 GMT

i have a program with filename statement pointing to a file with a network path. then use the infile statement to convert it to SAS dataset. it works fine vast majority of the time.

however, once in a while when we process tons of jobs at same time, one or two will fail due to error of can not find the file. obviously, the file is there.

any ideas? thanks.

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

Ksharp — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 05:16:26 GMT

Maybe there are some time delay when you connect to network path. Try wait some seconds:

data _null_;

rc=sleep(10,1);

run;

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

SASKiwi — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:42:30 GMT

You could try using the FILEXIST function to confirm first if SAS can find the file:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lefunctionsref/67960/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n06xm8hwk0t0axn10gj16lfiri43.htm

If it doesn't exist then you could keep repeating the function until SAS successfully finds it.

Re: ERROR: Physical file does not exist

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:26:09 GMT

And, if you use SASKiwis method, you might consider setting a maximum number of repeats, so that your job won't wait for the rest of eternity.