Tuesday, March 19, 2013

ERROR: Unable to clear or re-assign the library

A code which was trying to assign the path of existing library to SASUSER library throws an error as below in SAS 9.2.

1283  +LIBNAME sasuser "/apps/sas/abc";*path of existing library is assigned to sasuser;
ERROR: Unable to clear or re-assign the library SASUSER because it is still in use.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.


Below code is used to circumvent this problem

1660   ods path reset;
1661   libname sasuser clear;
NOTE: Libref SASUSER has been deassigned.
1662   LIBNAME sasuser "/apps/sas/abc";*path of existing library is assigned to sasuser;
NOTE: Libname SASUSER refers to the same physical library as ABC.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks, that solved the problem I was having in SAS 9.4 (Windows 64 bit).

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