Many of the SAS formats that have details specific to the OS/2 operating environment are used to write binary data. In using these formats, it is important that you understand the concepts that are ...

This section describes how the LIBNAME statement and the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility treat each of these types during input operations. contains numeric data with definable scale and precision ...

I don't have SAS installed at work or I would check, but I'm wondering if you have tried calling your library something other than library? If that is a reserved keyword that would cause a problem.