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PROC MEANS/SUMMARY/TABULATE/REPORT may produce additional classification
groups when a w.d format is pre-assigned to a numeric CLASS or GROUP
variable. This behavior happens because the procedure is not using the
format when classifying the data.  This should only affect numeric data
with lots of precision whether real or spurious such that the format
would have rounded the data when grouping.

PROC MEANS/SUMMARY/TABULATE/REPORT may also not apply a pre-assigned w.d
format to the printed output.

To circumvent these behaviors, format the numeric CLASS or GROUP
variable within the procedure or specify the name of Fw.d to the format
in the DATA STEP. Fw.d and w.d formats are equivalent, but the Fw.d
format does not get ignored when building groups.

A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.1 TSLEVEL TS1M0 for this
issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/81_sbcs_prod_list.html#004359


A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 TSLEVEL TS2M0 for this
issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#004359

For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
hot fix should be downloaded from:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_dbcs_prod_list.html#004359

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for Release 8.1 (TS1M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at: