Date:         Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:54:38 -0500
Reply-To:     Mary <mlhoward@avalon.net>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mary <mlhoward@AVALON.NET>
Subject:      Re: SAS code works on laptop but not on workstation
Comments: To: "P. Cristian Gugiu" <crisgugiu@YAHOO.COM>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Cristian,

It doesn't sound like there's too many records there- maybe try to see if you could substitute this code for your proc append and see if it works (or at least gives you a better error message)

data loc.lamdas;
    set loc.lamdas work.lamdas;
run;

-Mary
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: P. Cristian Gugiu 
  To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:43 PM
  Subject: Re: SAS code works on laptop but not on workstation


  Thanks to one members running SAS in a Vista OS environment, I was able to
  examine the log from his run. According to the log, there were 56
  temporary datasets created with 1 record and 8 variables. Search
  for: "NOTE: The data set WORK.LAMBDAS has 1 observations and 8 variables."
  However, the final dataset located in the Loc folder is empty. Therefore,
  for some reason, either the following code does not appear to work in a
  Vista environment or something is preventing the temp dataset from being
  appended. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

  %MACRO AppendData;
   %if %sysfunc(exist(work.Lambdas))=1 %then %do  ;
    /* Appends results of each run to _Data. */
    Proc Append Base=Loc.Lambdas Data = Lambdas ;
    run ;

    proc datasets ;
     delete Lambdas;
    run;
   %end;
   %else %put Temporary file Lambdas does not exist in the Work
  folder.;
  %Mend;