Thanks for your suggestion - my user tried and this helped. In the meantime I also raised the issue with SAS Technical Support and they came back with this response - looks like the problem will be fixed when we finish migrating everyone to EGuide 8.3. Hi Valerie, Thank you for your email regarding the error you are seeing with SAS EG : 504 data _prodsavail; ___________ 180 ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order I've done some checking into this error and it seems that there is no way to prevent this code from running when EG starts up, but on the plus side you can just ignore the error message. The problem is occurring because there is an issue with the way that the SAS EG parallel sessions disconnect from the server when run as a Parallel execution. An official Defect is in place for this issue and it has been fixed in SAS EG 8.x1 onwards, but unfortunately there are no plans to fix this in SAS EG 7.x versions. There is a suggested Work around that you may find helpful . In SAS EG -> Project -> Properties -> Code Submission ' Ensure that "Allow parallel execution on same server " is deselected. This should minimise the potential for the error to appear.
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