Hi all,

SAS just sent me this. I have passed on the info to the network guys.

anita

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Hi Anita,

I found this out on the web and it definitely seems to be effecting alot of McAfee customers with different products. Here is the link for you to reference:

http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=428157&sid=a649078f8f1fe4faaad9524be994e051

Thank you, sandy

On Jan 20, 4:29 pm, dfis...@CSULB.EDU ("Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.D.") wrote: > Anita, > I do not know if this is related to your problem or not. We use a data > entry program that recently > stopped working and we needed to upgrade it to a new version. The > company said that it was > either a problem with a windows update or a problem with an antivirus > program that updated. We have > upgraded to the new version on one test machine that seems to be working > with the new version. > One of my staff said that she has McAfee AV on her home machine and that > it caused problems > recently with one of her programs. I am not sure what is going on, but > your description and the > timing and the program that you suspect are all too similar to some of > our problems. Let us know what > you ultimately find out. If I were in your shoes I would ask SAS if > there is a patch for this. > Dennis Fisher > > Anita wrote: > > This week, my company updated our McAfee to 3.6.0.453. I don't know if > > it is a coincidence or not, but ever since, I've been getting errors > > like this : > > > 97 data misc8.tcert;length key $100;set misc8.tcert(obs=0);run; > > > NOTE: There were 0 observations read from the data set MISC8.TCERT. > > NOTE: The data set MISC8.TCERT has 0 observations and 43 variables. > > ERROR: Close lock is not available for MISC8.TCERT.DATA, lock held by > > another process. > > ERROR: Close lock is not available for MISC8.TCERT.DATA, lock held by > > another process. > > ERROR: Close lock is not available for MISC8.TCERT.DATA, lock held by > > another process. > > NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This > > may cause NOTE: No observations in data set. > > NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time): > > > This has been on numerous different files. I've gone in and copied the > > data from misc6.tcert to misc6.tcert1 (for example) and changed the > > code to look at tcert1. It ran fine the next time - stopping at yet > > another file because of a locking problem. After re-creating the new > > file, the program is run again...and it stops at yet another file. > > > This program is on a scheduled task and runs hourly. What is the > > problem and is there a solution? > > > Thank you in advance, > > anita