Date:         Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:17:34 GMT
Reply-To:     Mark Watson <mwatson@GATE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mark Watson <mwatson@GATE.NET>
Organization: Elementary Performance, Inc.
Subject:      Very weird Error Message !

I've been working with SAS since the 76.x versions and have seen some strange
output throughout the years, but I received an error message today that I
didn't
believe. We run SAS 6.08 on MVS (not sure of the TS level).  I put together a
simple DATA step as follows:
 
DATA HM74 (KEEP = JOB PROGRAM INITDATE INITTIME CPUTM);
  SET MONTHLY.STEPS (WHERE=(PROGRAM=:'HM74'));
  INITDATE = DATEPART(INITTIME);
  FORMAT INITDATE MMDDYY.;
RUN;
 
ERROR: Never-should-happen.  Code YZBMLOK0. File MONTHLY.STEPS.DATA.
NOTE: The data step has been abnormally terminated.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements.  etc. etc.
 
Anyway, has anyone else ever seen this ERROR: message ?  Even better, does
anyone have any idea what it is saying ?  I fixed the error by taking the WHERE
condition out of the SET statement and putting it in a WHERE statement
following
the SET.
 
Just thought this newsgroup would be interested in this...
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