how to set Write permission for SASUSER library in SAS University edition ?

[therajatmadaan]

ERROR: Write access to member SASUSER.FORMATS.CATALOG is denied.

[Cynthia_sas]

HI:
You do not have write access to the SASUSER library in SAS University Edition. The best thing to do is to allow PROC FORMAT to write your formats to the WORK location or to define a permanent location where you have WRITE access in a LIBNAME statement and use the LIBRARY= option with PROC FORMAT to point to that other location.
Cynthia

[therajatmadaan]

Hi Cynthia ,

Yes I created a custom library to store proc formats. But when I am restarting the sas session. My library is not appearing under libraries. If it's going to disappear everytime just like work Library. Then what is the purpose of creating a permanent library

[Shmuel]

What sas platform are you using?

If you run sas on a server you need get the permission from the administrator.

If you use SAS University Edition and some others you can't get the permission because many others use the same sasuser library.

To save your own formats define any other private library to save there the format catalog. 

[therajatmadaan]

Hi,

Yes I created a custom library to store proc formats. But when I am restarting the sas session. My library is not appearing under libraries. If it's going to disappear everytime just like work Library. Then what is the purpose of creating a permanent library

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi: A permanent library does not "disappear". Think of SAS as "unplugging" itself from the data when you take your session down. So the first thing you should do when you log back in or start a new SAS session is "plug into" your permanent data by issuing LIBNAME statements for your data location. I have a program that I keep called LIBNAME.SAS that always has my permanent libraries defined with LIBNAME statements and the program also has the OPTIONS I most always use. The first thing I do when I log on is to submit that program.
Cynthia