I see, thank you. The entire log is quite lengthy, as I am creating some formats... What would be most helpful in this case? Here is the log output from the 'opt/..../BatchServer' run from PuTTY: 853 proc contents data=stg.policy out=stg.policy_names(keep=name varnum where=(substr(name,1,5)='Risk_')); run; NOTE: The data set STG.POLICY_NAMES has 10 observations and 2 variables. ERROR: An I/O error has occurred on file STG.POLICY_NAMES.DATA. NOTE: PROCEDURE CONTENTS used (Total process time): real time 0.25 seconds cpu time 0.01 seconds NOTE: The PROCEDURE CONTENTS printed pages 26-27. 854 proc sort data=stg.policy_names; by varnum; run; ERROR: A lock is not available for STG.POLICY_NAMES.DATA. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This might cause NOTE: No observations in data set. NOTE: PROCEDURE SORT used (Total process time): real time 0.01 seconds cpu time 0.00 seconds I am now receiving I/O errors on the POLICY_NAMES file, regardless of being ran via PuTTY or SAS EG. The day gets better..
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