sas - Use of wildcards in a fileref generating Insufficient Authorization message -


is there sas system option, configuration parameter, or other scenario might disable use of wildcards in fileref? following code works:

filename thefile "/sasrep/poc/ungmpw.pro" ; data _null_;     infile thefile;     input; run; 

whereas following code:

filename thefile "/sasrep/poc/ungmp?.pro" ; data _null_;     infile thefile;     input; run; 

generates error message:

error: insufficient authorization access /sasrep/poc/ungmp?.pro. 

this using sas 9.1.3 on unix.

i think in order use wildcards assign multiple files single fileref, need wrap files in parentheses... e.g.

filename multi ("myfiles*.txt")

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