In SAS^® Enterprise Miner™, you can specify a Number of Groups property in the Interactive Grouping node, and a Number of Bins property in the Interactive Binning node. However, if you have an interval input variable that has fewer unique levels than the Number of Groups value, or the Number of Bins value (depending on which node you are using), then the interval input variable will instead be treated as an ordinal input variable in the analysis.

There are no errors or warnings to indicate that the interval variables were treated as ordinal variables.

Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

After you apply the hot fix, specify the following macro options in the project start-up code to prevent the interval input variables from being treated as ordinal input variables:

%GLOBAL EM_IGN_ApplyLevelRule  EM_BINNING_ApplyLevelRule;
%let EM_IGN_ApplyLevelRule = N;
%let EM_BINNING_ApplyLevelRule = N;

If you want to return to the pre-hot fix behavior (interval input variables that have fewer unique levels than Number of Groups or Number of Bins will instead be treated as ordinal input variables), then invoke the following macro options in your project start-up code:

%GLOBAL EM_IGN_ApplyLevelRule  EM_BINNING_ApplyLevelRule;
%let EM_IGN_ApplyLevelRule = Y;
%let EM_BINNING_ApplyLevelRule =Y;

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Credit Scoring for Enterprise Miner 5.3 is available at: