Date:         Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:26:15 -0400
Reply-To:     Venky Chakravarthy <sasyellvenky@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Venky Chakravarthy <sasyellvenky@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS is recognizing dataasets on one computer and not another
Comments: To: "Simon, Lorna" <Lorna.Simon@umassmed.edu>
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Is it possible that your admin has like named datasets but of mixed
engines (especially something from the old days, say V6) whereas all
of yours are the newer ones with V7+ engines? Still that wouldn't
explain how your admin is able to see all the datasets in the SAS
Explorer (assuming you are referring to the Explorer window within a
DM session).

Does Halloween arrive late at UMASS :-)? Anyway your admin could try:

libname test v6 "c:\spookystuff" ;
libname test2 "c:\spookystuff" ;
libname nospook (test test2) ;

Then she could try reading the datasets with the NOSPOOK libref and
see if that solves the problem.

Venky Chakravarthy

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Simon, Lorna <Lorna.Simon@umassmed.edu> wrote:
> We encountered a weird problem today. When my research assistant ran a program on her computer, SAS was giving her the error that certain datasets don't exist. Yet when she looks at the datasets in the library in SAS explorer, the datasets are there. And when I ran the program on my computer, SAS recognized the datasets without error. Does anyone have any idea what could cause this?
>
> Lorna J. Simon, MA
> Data Analyst
> Center for Mental Health Services Research
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Massachusetts Medical School
> 55 Lake Avenue North
> Worcester, MA 01655
>
> Phone: 508-856-8720
> Fax: 508-856-8700
> E-mail: Lorna.Simon@umassmed.edu
>