When you use SAS Data Integration Studio, duplicate references to column names are inadvertently removed from the generated code when all of the following are true:

• you migrate from SAS Data Integration Studio 3.4 to SAS Data Integration Studio 4.21
• you make two or more references to the same column name in an ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause of an SQL Join transformation

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

Here is an example. The generated code in SAS Data Integration 3.4 might look like this:

In this SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2 postmigration code, notice the missing second reference to the column in the GROUP BY clause:

You must edit the code and add the second reference to the column to the GROUP BY clause.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Data Integration Studio 4.21_M2 is available at: