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46520 - Invalid format of DATE13. generated by EFI, PROC IMPORT, and IMPORT WIZARD- Problem Note
When EFI, PROC IMPORT, or the IMPORT WIZARD encounter a date value in quotation marks like
45227 - Invalid format of DATE18. generated by EFI, PROC IMPORT and IMPORT WIZARD- Problem Note
EFI generates a format of DATE18. which is invalid when encountering a datetime field with zeros for the time portion
Beginning in SAS 9.3 the option VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND is available to extend the characters that can be used in member names for SAS data sets, views, and item stores. However, VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND is not recognized and ...
13484 - EFI, Import Wizard and PROC IMPORT can misread fields that contain date and time- Problem Note
When using EFI, the Import Wizard, or PROC IMPORT to read delimited files, some fields that contain a date and time are not read correctly. If the field is not in the pattern of DDMMYY<YY> HH:MM:SS, the field ...
40433 - EFI, Proc Import, Import Wizard reads a value with a single quote incorrectly- Problem Note
Beginning in SAS 9 EFI, PROC IMPORT or IMPORT WIZARD will read a value which contains a single quote and no closing quote prior to the delimiter for the field incorrectly. The value will be incorrect due to containing ...
40220 - EFI, PROC IMPORT and IMPORT WIZARD read a quoted 4 digit number incorrectly- Problem Note
Beginning in SASŪ 9.2 TS2m0 a numeric value that is enclosed in quotation marks will be considered to be a SAS datetime variable when using EFI, PROC IMPORT or IMPORT WIZARD. The numeric value will have an informat of ...
34914 - Segmentation violation running PROC IMPORT code in SASŪ 9.2- Problem Note
Under certain circumstances, PROC IMPORT code causes a segmentation violation in SAS 9.2. The same code runs successfully in SAS 9.1.3
9349 - Errors from EFI, PROC IMPORT, or PROC EXPORT following hot fix installation- Problem Note
In Release 8.2 TSLEVEL 2M0, Windows sites that install hot fix 82BB24 or 82BX04 (which includes 82BB24) may subsequently experience problems using PROC IMPORT, PROC EXPORT, or the External File Interface (EFI) when ...
35412 - ANYDTDTM informat reads datetime values as dates- Problem Note
When reading datetime values with PROC IMPORT or the Import Wizard, often the ANYDTDTM informat is used since it can read many different styles of datetime values. When a value that is ambiguous is read, SAS may read ...
33806 - EFI, PROC IMPORT, and IMPORT WIZARD read numeric value with a hyphen incorrectly- Problem Note
Beginning in SAS 9.2 a value that contains numbers separated by a hyphen will be typed as numeric when using EFI, PROC IMPORT or IMPORT WIZARD. The numeric variable will be assigned the TIMEw. Informat and Format ...
