SAS jobs crashing due to insufficient disk space

When users port SAS jobs to cluster and try to scale them up, jobs crash due to insufficient disk space.

By default, SAS will write temporary files to /tmp which is often very limited in size. Instead the user can direct the program to write these temporary files in a larger storage location (such as /scratch) like this:

sas myjob.sas -work /scratch/hpcuser

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