Please start a NEW question instead of posting on a two year old thread.  You can include a link to this if you want.   Include the actual code you ran, any notes or errors from the SAS log.   Is the problem that you values are too long for the default 32K record length?  If so then add the LRECL= option to the FILENAME statement to set something longer.  In general you can have any length then , but memory limits on particular operating systems might limit you to 10000000 bytes max for LRECL setting. Which should be way longer than any reasonable dataset would require. ... View more