Since you are now doing a sequential copy (at which sas excels) read my comments in https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/How-to-speed-up-performance-of-Sas-9-4-TS1M3-thr...
So the breakeven point (timewise) between modify and copy is a SMALL file about half the size.
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