This represents a change from earlier releases for how response levels are ordered. In releases previous to Version 8, numeric levels with no explicit format were ordered by their BEST12. formatted values. If you want to continue to use this ordering, you would specify this format explicitly. The change was implemented because the former default behavior for ORDER=FORMATTED often resulted in levels not being ordered numerically and usually required the user to intervene with an explicit format or ORDER=INTERNAL to obtain the more natural ordering.

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