Problem Note 8683: PROC NLMIXED fails to process all levels of BY variable when a floating
point overflow error occurs
When BY-group processing is done in PROC NLMIXED and the procedure
encounters a floating point overflow error, the procedure will terminate
and will not proceed to the next level of the BY variable.
There is no circumvention for this problem.
A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 TSLEVEL TS2M0 for this
issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#008683
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| OS/2 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| IRIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| CMS | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 TS1M0 |
| AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.1 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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Analytics ==> Mixed Models
SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> NLMIXED
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| Date Modified: | 2002-11-22 09:32:24 |
| Date Created: | 2002-10-16 12:10:40 |
