Which operating system does your SAS run on? I ask because I don't know a UNIX that is supported by SAS (AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris) that does not have the home directories of users in /home per default. While users must not have write permissions for the parent of their $HOME, write permission on $HOME is a must. I wonder how SAS managed to create a SASUSER for you.   Do you use SAS Display Manager, SAS Studio, or SAS Enterprise Guide? If EG, try to create a new folder in your Server List/SASApp/Files.     PS don't try to lie to Excel. The output of tagsets.excelxp is XML, so files should have an extension of .xml. Newer versions of Excel complain when you want to open a XML file with a .xls extension.     ... View more