Problem Note 48118: Some IS8601 formats do not honor the MISSING= system option
Formats B8601DT/E8601DT and B8601DZ/E8601DZ ignore the MISSING= system option setting when outputting missing numeric values. Instead of outputting the value assigned to the option, a period is output.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
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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.
This code illustrates that the MISSING= system option setting isn't honored by the format. Instead of writing a space for the numeric variable, a period is output instead.
options missing=' ';
data a;
x=.;
format x e8601dt.;
proc print;
run;
A period is output for X instead of a space.
Obs x
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| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Formats ==> Date and Time
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| Date Modified: | 2012-10-11 13:13:49 |
| Date Created: | 2012-10-10 12:54:41 |
