Michael Raithel wrote: > Dear SAS-L-ers, > > krzysoporanku kicked off an interesting thread with his original message, > which can be found in its entirety beneath the Sig line. His first > paragraph was: > > >> I've a serious problem with large SAS 4GL source. We are trying >>to submit one data step with about 1,000,000 source lines. All is >>correct on Windows NT (2K) platform, but on HP UNIX 11 (SAS 8.2 32bit) >>source generates error: >> >> >>>ERROR: Out of memory. >>>FATAL: Error occurred in the code generation subsystem during program >>load. > > krzysoporanku, this is a fascinating problem, indeed! And you have already > gotten great advice from some SAS-L heavyweights. (Heavyweights in the > sense of SAS knowledge only--not the other kind)! But, I am thinking: if > ever a DATA step cried out for pre-compilation, it would be this one! Why > not separate out the SAS System's compilation of the DATA step from its > execution of the DATA step? Perhaps that would resolve your memory issue. > I mean doing the following: <.. cut ..>

Thanks for suggestions but please look on attacheched to first mail sample program. This code working just like you wrote.

Krzysztof Pruszczak