Problem Note 21132: PROC MEANS/SUMMARY/TABULATE might issue a Note about formatting exceptions
Procedures that use the summary object, such as MEANS, SUMMARY, and TABULATE, might perform inconsistently. Submitted code can complete successfully or it might appear to hang and generate the following Note in
the SAS Log:
NOTE: Formatting exceptions occurred during data classification for
variable (variable name). The format width was probably too
small for one or more of the values.
The problem is related to threaded formatting. Adding the NOTHREADS system option or PROC statement option corrects the problem.
The problem is also fixed by installing the Base hot fix bundle for SAS
9.1.3 (E9BX02) found below:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/ve9bx.html
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
PROC MEANS/SUMMARY/TABULATE might issue a Note about formatting exceptions.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2008-09-30 09:04:14 |
| Date Created: | 2007-10-12 12:48:13 |
