Problem Note 9299: PROC UNIVARIATE may abend with the PLOTS option and BY statement
If Hot Fix 82BB16 has been installed and PROC UNIVARIATE is executed
with the PLOTS option and you have a numeric BY variable with a
formatted length greater than 8, then the procedure will issue:
NOTE: Formatted values of BY variable XYZ truncated to 8
characters in side-by-side box plots.
and it will terminate with an error such as:
ERROR: Read Access Violation In Task ( UNIVARIATE ]
If no format has been applied to the BY variable, the default numeric
format is BEST12. so the same problem occurs.
To circumvent the problem, add a FORMAT statement in the PROC UNIVARIATE
step to apply any numeric format of length 8 or less to the BY variable.
Note: Hot Fix 82BB16 is also included in Hot Fix Bundle 82BX04.
A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this
issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#009299
For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
hot fix should be downloaded from:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_dbcs_prod_list.html#009299
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| IRIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| OS/2 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Linux | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| CMS | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
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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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Analytics ==> Nonparametric Analysis SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> UNIVARIATE Analytics ==> Descriptive Statistics Analytics ==> Distribution Analysis
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| Date Modified: | 2003-02-20 09:11:46 |
| Date Created: | 2003-01-29 11:14:16 |