Date:         Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:07:21 +0100
Reply-To:     krzysoporanku <krzysoporanku@POCZTA.ONET.PL>
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From:         krzysoporanku <krzysoporanku@POCZTA.ONET.PL>
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Subject:      Re: SAS Jobs in parallel - Timing Issue?
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Lawson, Gavin wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am perplexed by a failure that occurred, and can't believe my conclusions
> are correct.
(...)

We have had the same problem a year ago when our machine (Win NT 4.0)
was overloaded. We have had almost the same theory but unfortunately I
haven’t good solution.

Our Case:
  Two simultaneous SAS session creates tables in the same directory
(f.eg – DATA_1 and DATA_2). Both of them checking what can be a names of
SAS temporary tables (without writing them).
1st session - t000001 (DATA_1)
2nd session - t000001 (DATA_2)

1st session starts writing to t000001 –
2nd fails but writing in LOG information with DATA_2 table name.

The SAS technician suggested to use a SAS Share ;-))))) or to use LONG
and SHORT sas filename extension (f.eg - 1st sesion *.sasb7dat,2nd
session *.sd7 ) - both solutions was ridiculous.

Good luck
KrzysOPoranku