Problem Note 4439: BY variable position may cause errors
In Release 8.1 TSLEVEL 1M0 of the SAS System, customers may receive
the following message after a host sort has been used:
ERROR: BY VARIABLES ARE NOT PROPERLY SORTED ON DATA SET
if the input data set Program Data Vector (PDV) is arranged such that
any BY variable is positioned more than 4092 bytes from the beginning.
A circumvention is to use the SAS sort utility by specifying OPTIONS
SORTPGM=SAS.
The problem is fixed in SAS System 9.
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#004439
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#004439
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#004439
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 8.1 TS1M0 | 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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Common Programming Tasks ==> Sorting Data
|
| Date Modified: | 2002-05-02 16:30:07 |
| Date Created: | 2001-03-05 15:21:08 |
