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Problem Note 37910: Some samples cannot be reproduced with METHOD=PPS_SYS
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When using METHOD=PPS_SYS in PROC SURVEYSELECT and one of more numeric variables having a length less than 8 are specified on the CONTROL statement, then the output sample cannot be reproduced even when using the same SEED= value.
To circumvent this problem, use a LENGTH statement in a DATA step to specify a length of 8 for any of the shorter numeric control variables.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | Tru64 UNIX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Solaris | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| IRIX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| HP-UX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| AIX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| OS/2 | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.1 TS1M0 | |||
| z/OS | 8.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||