I have a question about conversion of SPSS data to SAS. I have found that missing codes (i.e. 99) sometimes convert to **, rather than retain the numeric value, in the SAS converted data. The variables register as numeric, and I cannot seem to program SAS to convert these ** values to anything else. I used DBMS Copy for the data conversion. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, have you found a solution (other than recoding the SPSS data prior to conversion)?

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