topic Re: data step Error says file is corrupt. in SAS Programming

data step Error says file is corrupt.

cellurl — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:52:55 GMT

(updated)

My Base SAS program gives an error.

MPRINT(ADD_WGT_BREAKS):   data disc_info(drop = wgtbrk_flg compress=yes);
MPRINT(ADD_WGT_BREAKS):   merge disc_info(in=ok1) single_wgt_breaks(in=ok2);
MPRINT(ADD_WGT_BREAKS):   by prod_type disc_id dstcrgn kyprdtyp begwgt endwgt;

ERROR: An I/O error has occurred on file WORK.DISC_INFO.DATA.
ERROR: File WORK.DISC_INFO.DATA is damaged. I/O processing did not complete.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

It gives this repeatidly and in different programs. Our company recently mandidated that our tmp directory

change from

libname sastmp /usr/local/sas/tmp

to now be

libname sastmp /var/ourcompany/SAS/WORK/tmp/9.4

I am worried that this "new error" is from a tmp file being too large and not fitting in tmp area??

I did du -f and the drive isn't full, but perhaps the tmp file is gi-normous?

Am I crazy? What tests should I run?

Thanks!

Re: data step Error says file is corrupt.

LinusH — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:11:12 GMT

When you are back at work, it would be great if you deliver the complete message/log.

If the file system is full, SAS might clean up after the error, so if you do a du later it will probably not show the relevant disk availability.

So monitor as the job runs, and add

options fullstimer;

to ou program, and it will tell you more about resource consumption in each step.

Re: data step Error says file is corrupt.

data_null__ — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:13:21 GMT

Re: data step Error says file is corrupt.

cellurl — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:13:36 GMT

I was mixing work directories and tmp directories. Thanks for the tips! I will mark this closed.

Re: data step Error says file is corrupt.

cellurl — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:17:37 GMT

the disk was full. I had cked it, but I had to ck it every second during execution using "df".

thanks