From: Jerome on
Hi Amar,

If it's not because of your disk space,
try to place temporary the OPTION NOTHREADS ; line before your sort
proc.

Reactivate this option after.

Regards.
Jerome.


On Mar 22, 6:29 am, Amar Mundankar <amarmundan...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Below is the code, I am trying to run.
>
> proc sort data=ftf_out.want1 out=ftf_out.want(drop=n _name_);
> by PLTK_PLAN_ID;
> run;
>
> Dataset want1 has 6.7 Million records.
> I am getting error as
> ERROR: Utility file write failed.  Probable disk full condition.
> I tried few options like changing the location of UTILLOC system
> option and set this option to a parmanent library having adequate
> space.
> What can be the problem ??
> Please help. I have to run other steps on Sorted dataset. I am not
> able to start other processing.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Regards,
> Amar Mundankar.