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Problem Note 44042: Calculations in SAS® programs might be inaccurate and might cause errors after you upgrade to the z/OS 1.12 operating system

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If your site is using CA TSO/MON Performance Management with Online Facility r6.2, various problems such as the following can result after you upgrade to the z/OS 1.12 operating system:

  • Incorrect calculations in your SAS programs (even without visible errors)
  • Erroneous values
  • Errors and error messages, such as the following:
      — ERROR: ARRAY SUBSCRIPT OUT OF RANGE AT LINE xxxxxx
      — Abend S0C7 at IEAVESRT+x'93C'
      — Abend S059
      — Abend S4FC
  • Errors seen in the MXG software from Merrill Consultants:
      — INVALID DATA FOR SMFTIME IN LINE 85041 3-10
      — ***ERROR. INVALID DB2 PRODUCT HEADER ID=101 QWHSLEN=50370
      — INVALID ARGUMENT TO FUNCTION DATEJUL
  • Other problems that involve floating-point registers

This issue can affect all releases of SAS and any other application that uses floating-point registers.

Contact Computer Associates and request APAR RO34278 to correct this problem.



Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemSAS Release
ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemBase SASz/OS
Z64
* 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.