WARNING: Unable to copy SASUSER registry to WORK registry.

[matthewtreed]

I am trying to start a second SAS v9.4 session on Windows 7. I get the following warning nin the log at startup:

WARNING: Unable to copy SASUSER registry to WORK registry. Because of this,
WARNING: you will not see registry customizations during this session.

I would like to have the same customizations in all sessions. I read that adding the -RSAUSER option to the command line would cause the SASUSER registry to be read-only and alleviate this problem. I changed the shortcut from:

"C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe" -CONFIG "C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\en\sasv9.cfg"

to

"C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe" -CONFIG "C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\nls\en\sasv9.cfg" -RSAUSER

Then I get an error at startup:

ERROR: Unrecognized SAS option name RSAUSER.
ERROR: (SASXKRIN): KERNEL RESOURCE INITIALIZATION FAILED.
ERROR: Unable to initialize the SAS kernel.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Matt

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

If the command line you show is the one you actually used, which seem likely given the error text, then you misspelled RSASUSER.

[matthewtreed]

Thanks! Yes that was it, I kept reading it as RSA USER instead of R SAS USER.