This is an old thread but I wanted to add my recent experience with the "Sort Execution Failure" error. First this troubleshooting page should be read; http://support.sas.com/kb/39/705.html In my recent experience with this error the problem appeared to be that there was insufficient disk space/storage, although there was ample disk available for the failing process (200gb). After trying various remedies we eventually identified that there was a user disk quota (of 75gb). Our job was executing as part of a batch of jobs on Unix, all being executed as the same user ('sasbatch'). The user disk quota is total usage for that user and so even though at a high level there was 200gb available, our user had reached it's quota and so the job was failing. After increasing the users disk quota all of our batch jobs were able to complete successfully. Hope this helps anyone who may come across the same situation.
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