Date:         Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:24:44 -0800
Reply-To:     Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Error
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"shireen" wrote:
> Could anyone give me suggestions as to why my program in SAS quits at
a particular point. I can be sure at which point it is to
> quit on me. It did it yesterday and I rewrote the whole paragraph at
where I knew it quit and then the program ran fine. Today it
> is at another point . Do you think it is because my program is a bit
bulky (huge). Any suggestions are welcome.

I doubt that it is because your program is large.  I have a 110K *macro*
I use
regularly.  SAS doesn't mind.  It may be because your data are so large
and you
are eventually filling your hard drive(s) or partition(s) with temporary
data
sets.  But you should get some sort of indication that this is the
problem.  What
error(s) are showing in your log?

But no one here can tell.  Not even the black woman with the lame
Jamaican accent
and the tarot cards.  You simply have not given us enough information.
In fact,
you have not given us *any* information.  That does not mean that we
want you to
dump a 30-page program on us, or a 70-page log.  But surely you can cut
your
program down to parts that work and parts that do not.  Can you get the
non-working
parts to run if you don't have so many temporary datasets already
created?
Can you get the non-working parts to run on a smaller dataset?  Can you
isolate what
parts fail?

Perhaps, if you can isolate the problem(s), we on this list can help you
more.

David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician