ODS TAGSETS.RTF does not honor the STARTPAGE=NOW option in some situations. A program that successfully used the STARTPAGE=NOW option in SAS® 9.2 to create two pages of output might create only one page of output in SAS® 9.3. This is most likely to occur if you are writing the output to the ODS TAGSETS.RTF destination and the STARTPAGE=NOW option is used in an ODS TEXT= statement to generate a page break before any procedure output.

To circumvent the problem, create the page break by producing procedure output with one observation and concealing the output. Please see the sample code on the Full Code tab for an illustration.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	DB2 Universal Database on AIX	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Aster Data nCluster on Linux x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		DB2 Universal Database on Linux x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Greenplum on Linux x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Netezza TwinFin 32bit blade	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Netezza TwinFin 32-bit SMP Hosts	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Netezza TwinFin 64-bit S-Blades	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Netezza TwinFin 64-bit SMP Hosts	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Teradata on Linux	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		z/OS	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Z64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Enterprise x64	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Home Premium x64	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Professional 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Professional x64	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows 7 Ultimate x64	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows Vista	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Windows Vista for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Linux	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Linux for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0
		Solaris for x64	9.3 TS1M0	9.4 TS1M0

* 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.

ODS TAGSETS.RTF does not honor the STARTPAGE=NOW option when used in an ODS TEXT= statement to generate a page break before procedure output in SAS 9.3.

The sample code below illustrates a circumvention for this problem by creating the desired page break with procedure output for a single observation in the data set. Style attributes are applied to the table to conceal it.

---

options nodate nonumber;
ods tagsets.rtf file="c:\tables93.doc" ;
ods escapechar="^";
title " ";

ods text="^{style [font_size=24pt] Analyzed using SAS &sysver}";
ods text="^{style [font_size=24pt] Operating System: &SYSSCP (&SYSSCPL)}";
ods text="^{style [font_size=24pt] Date: &sysdate}";

/* Workaround in SAS 9.3 */
proc report data=sashelp.class(obs=1) nowd noheader
     style(report)={rules=none frame=void}
     style(column)={foreground=white};
run;

/* ods tagsets.rtf startpage=now; */

title j=l "Table 1.";
title2 " ";

proc report data=sashelp.shoes spanrows nowd split="\" 
     style (header)={textalign=center verticalalign=center 
                     borderbottomstyle=double borderbottomwidth=0.75};
   column ("Title Page" returns,n);
   define returns / display order=data center "" style(column)=[width=26% verticalalign=center];
   define n / center "" style(column)=[width=13% verticalalign=center];
run;

ods text="^S={fontsize=12pt fontweight=light} ^n Note: This should be the second page";

ods tagsets.rtf close;

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ODS TAGSETS.RTF does not honor the STARTPAGE=NOW option in some situations in SAS® 9.3.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2012-08-09 15:35:16
Date Created:	2012-07-30 11:22:31