Hi Kurt,   Just because it didn't produce an Export Unsuccessful message in the log for your example, doesn't mean it doesn't ever produce the message.   Maybe you mean it does not always result in the message.   Anyways, thanks for your data step example. That could be useful, but at least in my use case, which is what led me to this thread, being able to automate the creation of multiple delimited files, even if one of those files is empty, can lead one to have to use a hammer for the entire process. ... View more

Here's a use case that makes complete sense for this.   You're a software tester that is creating delimited input files for testing, and one of the scenarios that require testing is an empty delimited file. As you want to make your data setup automated, you'd like SAS to allow you to export an empty delimited file without hassle, so that you don't have to create this one file manually.   If you export an empty data set that contains variables in the PDV, even though SAS will report the export was unsuccessful, the file will indeed be created. At least it did in my case. ... View more