Usage Note 39658: Missing units specification when setting margins causes warning message in SAS® 9
When specifying margin settings in SAS 9, you must specify the units
to be used. If you omit the units specification, a warning message is written to the SAS® log.
For example, the following OPTIONS statement would cause warning messages:
options leftmargin = 0.02 rightmargin = 0.02 ;
Because no units were specified, the following messages are printed in the
SAS log, and the default unit, inches, is used:
WARNING: Units were not specified on the LEFTMARGIN option. Inches will be used.
WARNING: Units were not specified on the RIGHTMARGIN option. Inches will be used.
This is a change from earlier releases of SAS.
Applying the available hot fix changes the WARNING to a NOTE in the SAS log.
To circumvent, you must specify units.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | |
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | |
*
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.
When specifying a margin setting in SAS® 9, if you do not specify the units to be used, a WARNING is written to the SAS log.
| Date Modified: | 2010-09-08 14:12:50 |
| Date Created: | 2010-05-17 11:09:30 |
