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Problem Note 32983: Invalid results occur when you use the DOWNLOAD procedure with the V6TRANSPORT option in SAS® 9.1.3 in the z/OS environment

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Under z/OS, the following code returns invalid results in SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 4.

signon hostname.spawner user=_prompt_; rsubmit; proc sql; create view test as select name as Name1, name as Name2 from sashelp.class; run; quit; endrsubmit; rsubmit; proc download data=test v6transport; run; endrsubmit; proc print data=test; run;
The variables Name1 and Name2 that are displayed by the PRINT procedure should have the same value. However, they do not, as shown in the following output:
The SAS System            16:01 Monday, May 19, 2008   1

                                   Obs    Name1       Name2

                                     1    Alfred     2
                                     2    Alice      2
                                     3    Barbara    2
                                     4    Carol      2
                                     5    Henry      2
                                     6    James      2
                                     7    Jane       2
                                     8    Janet      2
                                     9    Jeffrey    2
                                    10    John       2
                                    11    Joyce      2
                                    12    Judy       2
                                    13    Louise     2
                                    14    Mary       2
                                    15    Philip     2
                                    16    Robert     2
                                    17    Ronald     2
                                    18    Thomas     2
                                    19    William    2

Note that the V6TRANSPORT option was suggested as a workaround for the issue documented in SAS Note 13122 "WZX: Invalid Conversion Map Specified".

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Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemSAS Release
ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS/CONNECTz/OS9.1 TS1M3 SP39.1 TS1M3 SP4
* 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.