When defining a custom SAS/AF class using SCL code and the SAVECLASS command, the description option is not honored for the Class statement.

To illustrate this behavior, you can use the below SCL code to generate an empty class. After you have included the code into an SCL entry, issue the SAVECLASS command.

After the Class entry has been saved, go to the SAS Explorer window with details turned on and navigate to the SAS catalog where the Class entry was written. You will see that the description field for the Class listing is blank.

After the Class entry has been saved to a SAS catalog, you can update the description by double-clicking on the Class entry in the SAS Explorer to open it up into the Class editor. You must make some type of change to the description text, even if you just enter a trailing space at the end of your description. After this change has been made, when you exit out of the Class editor, you will see that the Description field has desired text.

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