When running SAS interactively in the windowing environment the TITLE statement incorrectly acts as a step boundary and resets the &SYSERR value. This problem does not occur when running in batch mode.

In the following example program a warning message is produced in the first DATA step and sets &SYSERR=4. The &SYSERR value should be reset to 0 (zero) only at a step boundary. The TITLE statement should have no effect on the &SYSERR value but it is causing &SYSERR to be reset to 0.

   /*The following DATA step produces a*/         
   /*warning message and sets &SYSERR=4*/         
                                               
   data test;                                     
     x="abc";                                       
     length x $ 4;                                  
   run;                                           
                                               
   /*The %PUT displays &SYSERR value of 4*/       
                                               
   %put &syserr;                                  
                                               
   /*The TITLE statement incorrectly acts as a*/  
   /*step boundary resetting the &SYSERR value*/  
                                               
   title 'this is the title';                     
                                               
   /*The %PUT shows &SYSERR was reset to 0*/ 
                                               
   %put &syserr;  

This problem will be fixed in a future SAS release.

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