Problem Note 40220: EFI, PROC IMPORT and IMPORT WIZARD read a quoted 4 digit number incorrectly
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Beginning in SAS® 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 ANYDTDTM40. and a format of DATETIME. An example of values would be the following:
"2005" "1111" "2601"
The above values should be considered character instead of a SAS datetime and will be handled correctly in a future release of SAS.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#40220| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> with PROC IMPORT Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> EFI Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> Import Wizard |
| Date Modified: | 2010-07-09 15:23:20 |
| Date Created: | 2010-07-06 10:24:40 |