Problem Note 45544: Grouped line plots generated with PROC SGPLOT or PROC SGPANEL might contain only one plot line
Line plots created with the SGPLOT or SGPANEL procedure that include the GROUP= option might contain only one line rather than one line for each value of the GROUP= variable.
This problem is most likely to occur if the VALIDVARNAME=ANY system option is in effect.
If your data conforms to SAS Version 7 naming conventions, a possible circumvention for this problem is to specify the VALIDVARNAME=V7 system option, as follows:
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Aster Data nCluster on Linux x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| DB2 Universal Database on AIX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| DB2 Universal Database on Linux x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Greenplum on Linux x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Netezza TwinFin 32bit blade | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Netezza TwinFin 32-bit SMP Hosts | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Netezza TwinFin 64-bit S-Blades | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Netezza TwinFin 64-bit SMP Hosts | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Teradata on Linux | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| z/OS | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Z64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows Vista | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Linux | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
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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.
Grouped line plots generated with PROC SGPLOT or PROC SGPANEL might contain only one plot line when the VALIDVARNAME=ANY system option is in effect.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2012-02-03 14:45:13 |
| Date Created: | 2012-01-31 12:24:35 |
