Problem Note 2976: ERROR: <by-increment> is not a valid increment for the type of format
specified
The following error may occur when attempting to specify the value YEAR2
as the by-increment for the ORDER of AXIS VALUES field under AXIS
OPTIONS when producing a high resolution plot using SAS/ASSIST:
ERROR: year2 is not a valid increment for the type of format
specified.
The error is most likely to occur when specifying date by-increments
that are followed by numbers, such as YEAR2, DAY3, WEEK2, and MONTH2.
The error does not occur with date by-increments that are not followed
by numbers, such as YEAR, DAY, WEEK, and MONTH.
To circumvent the problem from within SAS/ASSIST, provide a list of date
values on the ORDER of VALUES list.
To circumvent the problem from the SAS Program Editor, recall source
code, modify the ORDER= option on the AXIS statement, and resubmit the
code.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | SAS/ASSIST | Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OS/2 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| IRIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| CMS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
*
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 |
| Date Modified: | 2000-07-06 10:34:48 |
| Date Created: | 2000-07-06 10:34:48 |
