Member Table Requirements for Creating Dynamic Cluster Tables

Overview of Table Requirements

When you create a dynamic cluster table, all of the member tables must have matching table, variable, and index attributes. If there are attribute mismatches, the dynamic cluster table creation fails, and SPD Server displays the following error message:
ERROR: Member table not compatible with other cluster members. Compare CONTENTS.
A more detailed error message is written to the SPD Server log. The SPD Server log lists which attribute is mismatched in the member table. The following lists specify the member table attributes that must match for SPD Server to successfully create a dynamic cluster table.

Table Attributes

The following table attributes must match in all member tables to successfully create a dynamic cluster table:
IDXSEGSIZE
index segment size
OBSLEN
observation record length
NVAR
number of columns
NINDEXES
number of indexes
DSORG
data set organization
SEMTYPE
data set semantic type
DSTYPE
SAS data set type
LOCALE
creation locale
LANG
data set language tag
LTYPE
data set language type tag
FLAGS
compressed data set
encrypted data set
backup data set
NLS variables in data set
MINMAXVARLIST variables in data set
SAS encryption password in data set
SASPW
SAS encryption password
DS_ROLE
data set option for ROLE
ENCODING_CEI
encoding CEI for NLS (for compressed tables)
DISKCOMP
compression algorithm
IOBLOCKSIZE
I/O block size
IOBLOCKFACTOR
I/O block factor

Variable Attributes

The following variable attributes must match in all member tables to successfully create a dynamic cluster table:
NAME
variable name
LABEL
variable label
NFORM
variable format
NIFORM
variable informat
NPOS
variable offset in record
NVARO
variable number in record
NLNG
variable length
NPREC
variable precision
FLAGS
NLS encoding supported
MINMAXVARLIST variable
NFL
format length
NFD
format decimal places
NIFL
informat length
NIFD
informat precision
NSCALE
scale for fixed-point decimal
NTATTR
variable type attributes
TYPE
variable type
SUBTYPE
variable subtype
SORT
variable sorted status
NTYPE2
variable extended type code

Index Attributes

The following index attributes must match in all member tables to successfully create a dynamic cluster table:
NAME
index name
TYPE
index type
KEYFLAGS
unique index
nomiss index
LENGTH
index length
NVAR
number of variables in index
NVAR0
variable number in index