Date:         Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:58:01 -0500
Reply-To:     Andrea Zimmerman <sassywench74va@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Andrea Zimmerman <sassywench74va@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trying to use a libname statement with mainframe tapes
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I think I found my answer.  It turns out our mainframe is set up in such a
way that we can't access tapes over a remote connection.

So it is outside my SAS codes ability to overcome.

Thanks for reading it anyway :)


On 1/8/08, Andrea Zimmerman <sassywench74va@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had the following line of code:
>
> libname myamdahl "PMA.PROD.PROJISP.&REF..MSVLM.SUMSTATS.SAS "server=amdahl;
>
> Which worked great previously, but now they are writing it to tape and not
> DASD.
>
> So now I get the following error message:
>
>
> 1253 libname myamdahl "PMA.PROD.PROJISP.&REF..MSVLM.SUMSTATS.SAS"
> server=amdahl;
>
> SYMBOLGEN: Macro variable REF resolves to LA2
>
> ERROR: SVC99 error rc=4, reason=0218 : IKJ56221I DATA SET
> PMA.PROD.PROJISP.LA2.MSVLM.SUMSTATS.SAS NOT ALLOCATED, VOLUME NOT
>
> AVAILABLE+IKJ56221I VOLUME NECESSARY TO SATISFY YOUR REQUEST NOT ON
> SYSTEM, AND CANNOT BE MOUNTED.
>
> ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
> I've seen that the file does exist so the comment about it not being
> allocated is confusing.
>
> I've been told that since it is tape and not DASD that I need to use FTP
> but the sample code they sent me uses flat files and not the SAS dataset
> that already exists.  It doesn't seem like this should be this hard, but it
> is.
>
>
> PC SAS 9.1.3 SP3 on Win XP
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman
> Capital One
>



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Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman
Capital One