Problem Note 32060: The SAS® Enterprise Guide® Parameters Manager does not load date values properly
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The SAS Enterprise Guide Parameters (Macro Variables) Manager does not load date values correctly from a text file. In addition, it does not load date values properly from a SAS data set.
When loading date values from a text file, the date values are loaded as "String" (character) values rather than as date values (which are stored as numeric values). For example, the following date values are loaded from a text file:
01Jan2008
02Jan2008
30Jan2008
01Feb2008
02Feb2008
01Mar2008
25Mar2008
These values are listed (alphabetically, rather than by date order) after loading as follows:
01Feb2008
01Jan2008
01Mar2008
02Feb2008
02Jan2008
25Mar2008
30Jan2008
If the same date values are loaded from a SAS data set, they are listed after loading as follows:
1Jan2008
2Jan2008
30Jan2008
1Feb2008
2Feb2008
1Mar2008
25Mar2008
Note that the leading zero is missing if the month day is less than 10.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Enterprise Guide | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 4.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 4.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 4.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 4.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 4.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 4.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
The SAS Enterprise Guide Parameters (Macro Variables) Manager
does not load date values correctly from a text file. In
addition, it does not load date values properly from a SAS
data set.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2008-06-26 10:24:55 |
| Date Created: | 2008-05-09 12:06:20 |