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Hi,
Do you have write access on the subset you are creating ?
If yes then do add the new format there... If not you could carry
the formats and use them in the procedures you need, example:
proc print data=subset;
format category category.
primary primary.
;
run;
Regards,
Bernard Tremblay
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>>>Hello!
>>>
>>> I want to create a dataset that is a subset of another dataset
>>>that also contains a number of new variables I have created. The
>>>previously existing variables have permanent formats and I want to
>>>create permanent formats for the new variables. This ordinarily would
>>>not be a problem but I do not have write access to the original format
>>>library. There are hundreds of formats in the original format library.
>>>Perhaps the example code below will give a reasonable idea of what I
>>>have tried without success:
>>>
>>>proc format;
>>> value category 1='Category A';
>>> value primary 1='Yes';
>>>
>>>run;
>>>
>>>proc datasets library=out1;
>>> modify data;
>>> format category category.
>>> primary primary.;
>>>
>>>run;
>>>
>>>I have tried a number of variations without success. This must be
>>>trivial, but I have not been able to figure it out. The operating
>>>system is MVS and the version 6.09E.
>>>
>>> Randy
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