Hey Fugue,   I had the same Problem with our installations. We have several different SAS-Installations on hundreds of PCs. Till this year we had a mix of 9.3 and 9.4 installations where we already had to take care, that 9.3 is installed before 9.4. When we upgraded our 9.3 environments to 9.4 our installationmanagement locked all 9.3-SASHomes for any read or write access to prevent them of being used. So we ran in the same problem, you mentioned. We ware unable to use 9.4 or do any updates (like hotfix install...). I found out, that the problem are the shared files, that are installed by the first SAS-Installation the occurs on the machine. By default, those shared files are installed in the SASHome of the first sas-installation and any following sas-installation uses those shared files.   But it is possible, to force SDW, to use an predefined directory for those shared files. You have to do two steps 1) You have to create the directory wherever you want it (For example C:\Program Files\SAS_SharedFiles) 2) You have to create this RegKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SAS Institute Inc.\Common Data\Shared Files With an REG_SZ-Key containing your Path (C:\Program Files\SAS_SharedFiles)   So as an RegKey-File it would be [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SAS Institute Inc.\Common Data\Shared Files] @="C:\\Program Files\\SAS_SharedFiles"   All following installations will uses this directory to keep there shared files.   Unfortunately, you might have to reinstall all SAS-Installations, to use this workaround. Because each SAS-Software has its own shared files, it might not be enough, to only reinstall one installation. But after doing this steps you will never run again in this problem.   I hope this helps you.   Kind Regards Daniel   ... View more

Well, I am more or less experienced with STPs. And I only know, that there is the option to create a web service. My question is, how do I have to prepare the STP to get the status into my website and what do I have to do, to extract it from the web service. ... View more

Ohh... it works. much thanks to you both for your time and your knowledge. It was a really big help to me und i learned a lot too. ... View more

You'r right that would have been better, in this file there are two observations with more than 32767characters https://www.dropbox.com/s/svyo7c62gg8kdo8/textdaten.txt ... View more

A combination of your Code and the code of Achilles seems interessting. ... View more

Thanks Chris, Thanks Ksharp, chris your output looks good but does not solve my problem that the maximum length of the Ports Variable is at 32k. but in some of the files i have a Lenght of that string thats much longer. ... View more

Here is testfile: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8snrc298se4f2pt/testdata.txt ... View more

i tried, but i understand about äh... nothing. Sorry ... View more

Thanks Ksharp, that seems to be the right way. I understand most of it. But what do i need to change to use an infile not instead of pasting my lines in to the code? I have 45 flatfile, each has about 4000 lines... ... View more

Your Code above overwrite my File and filled it with something like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ and so on... glad i had a backup. i submitted a ticket to SAS Support now. ... View more

Thanks too all of your ideas, Achilles gave me a idea, i will try i soon. Her is a sample, the Portsstring can be up to about 200k: Host: 10.131.113.131 (SAP00931.lan.****.de) Ports: 80/open/tcp//http//Microsoft IIS httpd 6.0/, 1042/open/tcp//msrpc//Microsoft Windows RPC/, 2555/open/tcp/////, 2580/open/tcp//tributary?///, 3389/open/tcp//ms-wbt-server//Microsoft Terminal Service/, 4999/open/tcp//hfcs-manager?/// Ignored State: closed (8997) OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2 EDIT: I tried now the following:   %macro count;      DATA test;     INFILE 'W:\Prz-IT63-LINUX-SCHWACHSTELLENANALYSE\#IT63kd\DEA\Scan01\sv_10.131.112.x-142.x_ex_AIX-AS400\outG';            input _infile_;            do count=1 to 20;                 if(length(_infile_) > 32767 then do;                 str&count = input(substr(_infile_,(count*32767,((count+1)*32767),$32767.);            end;            else;                 str21 = input(_infile_$32767.);            end;      run; %mend; %count; But it gaves me several errors ERROR: The _INFILE_ variable cannot be referenced by the INPUT statement. WARNING: Apparent symbolic reference COUNT not resolved. ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator. ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order. ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored. ERROR 160-185: No matching IF-THEN clause. ERROR 78-322: Expecting a ','. ERROR 161-185: No matching DO/SELECT statement. Why is the COUNT Variable not resolved? ... View more

Ok. I tryed it again. And discovered that the problem only appears if i use "startpage=no" Here is my code, maybe you have an idea how to change this. I have a PDF Output. If not i will contact the Tech Support. And regards for your help as far. PROC TEMPLATE; DEFINE STYLE HUK2; PARENT = Styles.Printer; STYLE fonts from fonts /   'TitleFont' = ("Arial",24pt)   'TitleFont2' = ("Arial",16pt)   'StrongFont' = ("Arial",10pt,Bold)   'EmphasisFont' = ("Arial",10pt,Italic)   'headingEmphasisFont' = ("Arial",10pt,Bold Italic)   'headingFont' = ("Arial",10pt,Bold)   'docFont' = ("Arial",10pt)   'footFont' = ("Arial",5pt)   'FixedEmphasisFont' = ("Courier",9pt,Italic)   'FixedStrongFont' = ("Courier",9pt,Bold)   'FixedHeadingFont' = ("Courier",9pt,Bold)   'BatchFixedFont' = ("Courier",6.7pt)   'FixedFont' = ("Courier",9pt); CLASS color_list /   'link' = blue   /* links */   'bgH' = cxF4C61B        /* row and column header background */   'fg' = black   /* tabletext color */   'st' = cx6E6E6E   /* system title color */   'pt' = cx969696   /* proc title color */   'ft' = #AAAAAA   /* foot note color */   'bg' = white   /* page background color */   'tb' = cx4F493B   /* Table border color */   'cb' = cxDCDCDC   /* Cell background color */   'tib' = cxF4C61B;  /* Table Title background color */ CLASS Body from Document /   bottommargin = 0.25in   topmargin = 0.25in   rightmargin = 0.25in   leftmargin = 0.25in; CLASS BODY /   PREIMAGE="W:\Prz-SAS92\HUKModifications\HUKStyles\Style\HUKBanner.png"; CLASS TABLE /   padding = 5        borderspacing = 1px        frame = box        rules = all        bordertopwidth = 1px        borderleftwidth = 1px        borderbottomwidth = 1px        borderrightwidth = 1px        bordercolor = color_list('tb')        bordercollapse = separate; CLASS COLORS /   'headerfgemph'   =  color_list('fg')   'headerbgemph'   =  color_list('tib')   'headerfgstrong'  =  color_list('fg')   'headerbgstrong'  =  color_list('tib')   'headerfg'    =  color_list('fg')   'headerbg'    =  color_list('tib')   'datafgemph'   =  color_list('fg')   'databgemph'   =  color_list('cb')        'datafgstrong'   =  color_list('fg')        'databgstrong'   =  color_list('cb')        'datafg'    =  color_list('fg')        'databg'    =  color_list('cb')   'batchbg'    =  color_list('fg')   'batchfg'    = color_list('bg')   'tableborder'   = color_list('fg')   'tablebg'    = color_list('fg')   'proctitlefg'   =  color_list('pt')   'proctitlebg'   =  color_list('bg')   'titlefg'    =  color_list('fg')   'titlebg'    = color_list('bg')   'systitlefg'   = color_list('st')   'systitlebg'   = color_list('bg')   'contentfg'   = color_list('fg')   'contentbg'   = color_list('bg')   'contitlefg'  = color_list('fg')   'confolderfg'  = color_list('fg')   'conentryfg'  = color_list('fg')   'docfg'    = color_list('fg')   'docbg'    = color_list('bg')   'captionbg'   =  color_list('bg')   'captionfg'   = color_list('fg')   'notefg'   = color_list('fg')   'notebg'   = color_list('bg')   'link2'    = color_list('link')   'link1'    = color_list('link')   'bylinebg'   = color_list('bg')   'bylinefg'   = color_list('fg')   'gheader'   = color_list('st'); class GraphBackground /   backgroundcolor  =  white   color     =  white; class Header from Header /   Cellwidth = 10%; END; RUN; ODS PDF FILE = 'Y:\SAMPLE.PDF' STYLE=HUK2 STARTPAGE=NO; TITLE 'Title'; FOOTNOTE 'Footnote'; PROC PRINT DATA = SASHELP.CLASS; RUN; ODS PDF CLOSE; ... View more