In reply to Ronald Calvanio.

Hi Ronald,

Clearly these are two different paths. I'm not sure what's happening to "switch" the location on you here, unless one path is a symbolic link to the other, and perhaps SAS cannot process the symbolic link. I suggest that you open a track with SAS Tech Support. In the meantime, you can play with the FILENAME statement to see if it can resolve these two paths you specified. If so, you can use a fileref in the DATAFILE= option.