@sasprofile wrote: Could you please be more clear about the physical path, which data physical path file you are saying to declare. fyi ours is just basic sas foundation environment with sas eg connects locally to foundation. we dont have any sas bi platform. so i want to know which are all the user actively using base sas and sas eg. btw we have only one 9.4 version.     %let infile1= \c:\xxxx\xxxx/xxxxx;   ( which phyical path i need to declare here ) You need the physical path of your Metadata Server log. This location depends on your SAS installation, so ask your SAS administrator.   From your other post I take it that you do not have a metadata server at all, so this code won't be of any help to you anyway. For better help, provide thorough information about how your SAS system is set up and how you use it. ... View more