Hi all - after uninstall and reinstall everything seems to be working well. In the meantime also received a solution from SAS technical support which I did not try as the reinstall fixed the issues. Thanks again. ... View more

Okay - thank you. I haven't modified any paths or created any templates. I'll open a ticket and go from there. Thanks again for your help! ... View more

Thanks Tom. My work directory is not full and I have never seen any errors related to my SAS user profile. When I first started there was an error related to the ODS template (I can't remember what it was or how I fixed it at the time). I have tried everything else suggested here, so I am wondering if reinstallation of SAS would be the next step. ... View more

Thank you - this is helpful going forward in any case. I replaced 'merge' with 'alldata' to avoid use of a reserved word and will avoid CAPS going forward. Unfortunately still having the same issue with my current coding after these changes. ... View more

I have restarted my computer and SAS, same issue remains. ... View more

As I said, I'm a new SAS user. I've changed the coding throughout so that SET statements create a new data set that is a modified version of the data set in the DATA statement.   I ran PROC contents (see bolded section):   DATA merge.FullData6;  SET merge.FullData5;  ARRAY new (3) C_PedsQLC_P01 - C_PedsQLC_P03;  ARRAY old (3) C_PedsQLC_P1 - C_PedsQLC_P3;  Do i=1 to 3;   if old(i)=0 then new(i)=100;    else if old(i)=1 then new(i)=75;    else if old(i)=2 then new(i)=50;    else if old(i)=3 then new(i)=25;    else if old(i)=4 then new(i)=0;   end;   drop i; C_PQLpNum = N(of C_PedsQLC_P01 C_PedsQLC_P02 C_PedsQLC_P03); If C_PQLpNum GE 2 then C_PQLpTot = sum(C_PedsQLC_P01,C_PedsQLC_P02,C_PedsQLC_P03)/C_PQLpNum; RUN;   PROC CONTENTS DATA=merge.FullData6; RUN;   PROC MEANS DATA=merge.FullData6; VAR C_PQLpTot; RUN;   And received this error (again, see bold):   169 170  PROC CONTENTS DATA=merge.FullData6; 171  RUN; ERROR: Unable to restore 'Base.Contents.Attributes' from template store! NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time):       real time           0.01 seconds       cpu time            0.01 seconds NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. 172 173  PROC MEANS DATA=merge.FullData6; 174  VAR C_PQLpTot; 175  RUN; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: There were 423 observations read from the data set MERGE.FULLDATA6. NOTE: PROCEDURE MEANS used (Total process time):       real time           0.01 seconds       cpu time            0.00 seconds     ... View more

Unfortunately not - usually it will say something that directs me to the problem area but I just get the one error message. Here is part of the log from my previous coding to give a bit more context (the first part is the reverse coding I talked about, and it worked fine):   357 358  DATA merge.FullData2; 359      SET merge.FullData2; 360      ARRAY new (3) C_PedsQLC_P01 - C_PedsQLC_P03; 361      ARRAY old (3) C_PedsQLC_P1 - C_PedsQLC_P3; 362      Do i=1 to 3; 363          if old(i)=0 then new(i)=100; 364              else if old(i)=1 then new(i)=75; 365              else if old(i)=2 then new(i)=50; 366              else if old(i)=3 then new(i)=25; 367              else if old(i)=4 then new(i)=0; 368          end; 369          drop i; 370  C_PQLpNum = N(of C_PedsQLC_P01 C_PedsQLC_P02 C_PedsQLC_P03); 371  If C_PQLpNum GE 2 then C_PQLpTot = sum(C_PedsQLC_P01,C_PedsQLC_P02,C_PedsQLC_P03)/C_PQLpNum; 372  RUN; NOTE: There were 423 observations read from the data set MERGE.FULLDATA2. NOTE: The data set MERGE.FULLDATA2 has 423 observations and 261 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):       real time           0.05 seconds       cpu time            0.03 seconds 373 374  /*Coding for MASC-10*/ 375  PROC MEANS DATA=merge.FullData2; 376  VAR C_PQLpTot; 377  RUN; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: There were 423 observations read from the data set MERGE.FULLDATA2. NOTE: PROCEDURE MEANS used (Total process time):       real time           0.01 seconds       cpu time            0.01 seconds   ... View more

Hi Draycut,   This is what appears in the log in full after I try to run: 202  PROC MEANS DATA=merge.FullData2; 203  VAR C_PQLpTot; 204  RUN; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: There were 423 observations read from the data set MERGE.FULLDATA2. NOTE: PROCEDURE MEANS used (Total process time):       real time           0.01 seconds       cpu time            0.01 seconds ... View more