V7-ODS-0752 OUTSTANDING PROBLEM
The ODS OUTPUT statement with BY processing may generate incorrect data
Product: BASE
Specific variables may have incorrect values in the output table when
created with the ODS OUTPUT Statement. For this to occur, the following
two conditions will have to be met:
1) When there is a grouping of output; most commonly the use of BY
processing.
2) The ODS output table consist of some variables named by ODS in such
a way that a conflict of variable names could occur. For example,
if your original variable is SALES, the naming convention for the
default p-value variable would be to precede the variable SALES with
with the first letter of the statistic (PSALES). If we have another
analysis variable by that name, the default p-value variable is
renamed and maybe incorrect. A note is generated in the log
documenting the fact that another variable was found with the same
name.
To circumvent the problem, rename the offending variable before running
the procedure, or run the procedure separately on each BY group using
a WHERE statement.
Keywords:
ODS OUTPUT STATEMENT PROCESSING GENERATE INCORRECT DATA BY GROUPING
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SAS Note Revised On: 24MAY99
System Release Reported Release Fixed
AIX/R 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
CMS 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
DigitUnx 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
HP800 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
MVS 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
OS/2 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
Solaris 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
VMS/AXP 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
VMS 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
WIN/NT 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
Win98 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
Win95 7.00 TS0P1 8.00
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