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Problem Note 66750: The LINES or LINESTABLE option in the LSMEANS or SLICE statement in the PLM procedure might generate an error or reuse letters
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When there are more than 24 statistically different groups and the LINES or LINESTABLE option is specified in the LSMEANS or SLICE statement, PROC PLM might report either of the following messages:
ERROR: An exception has been encountered
ERROR: More than 24 columns needed to represent groupings
Alternatively, under the same conditions, a letter grouping in the range A to Y might be used more than once.
This problem can occur when the item store is generated in any of the following procedures:
SAS/QC® software
- RELIABILITY
SAS/STAT® software
- GEE
- GENMOD
- GLIMMIX
- GLM
- LIFEREG
- LOGISTIC
- MIXED
- ORTHOREG
- PHREG
- PLM
- PROBIT
- SURVEYLOGISTIC
- SURVEYPHREG
- SURVEYREG
There is no circumvention for this problem.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | Solaris for x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Linux | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows Vista | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| z/OS | 9.22 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||