topic Re: Expression for mapping the new variable in SAS Data Management

Expression for mapping the new variable

Babloo — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:49:05 GMT

Appreciate if someone of you guide me to derive the expression with the following condition. I'm using DI Studio 4.21.

I want to derive the new variable KNDATL and mapping is to take the policy issue date from POLICY dataset. If this policy issue date is empty than check if the knkatd (it's a another variable) of current run month <> knkatd of previous month. If there is difference then take end of month as KNDATL; if no difference, take the same value for KNDATL as previous month. Data for knkatd looks like

1 to 12 (Jan as 1 to Dec as 12)

Re: Expression for mapping the new variable

RW9 — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:53:40 GMT

Again, please post test data in the form of a datastep and show what you want out at the end. SAS is a data based programming language, without this it is not possible to fully answer any question, this has been mentioned many times.

Re: Expression for mapping the new variable

LinusH — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:31:18 GMT

This is quite advanced logic, and hard to guide for a DI Studio use case. But doesn't seem like a single derived expression to me (and yes, source and sample output data would help).
You probably need a join, perhaps multiple times with the same source table.