Beginning in SAS 9.2 a value that contains numbers separated by a hyphen will be typed as numeric when using EFI, PROC IMPORT or IMPORT WIZARD. The numeric variable will be assigned the TIMEw. Informat and Format. An example of the values would be any of the following:

                                                                
   100-5                                                         
   1-1                                                           
   1123-5                                                        
   100-23                                                        
   23-34                                                         

The desired type of character for the variable instead of numeric will be fixed in a future release.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Solaris for x64	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		OpenVMS on HP Integrity	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux for x64	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Windows Vista	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.2 TS1M0	9.2 TS2M0

* 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.

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A fix for SAS 9.2 (TS1M0) for this issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/f9_sbcs_prod_list.html#033806

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Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high
Topic:	Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> EFI Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> with PROC IMPORT

Date Modified:	2008-10-31 14:26:38
Date Created:	2008-10-31 13:05:38