ERROR 48-59: The informat $YYMMDD was not found or could not be loaded.

jayram99 — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:19 GMT

We are getting below error message in QUAL Region. We didn't made any changes to code and data.

Please see the detailed information in attachment as i couldn't paste the information.

Appreciate your kind Help.

Thank you,

Jayaram

Re: ERROR 48-59: The informat $YYMMDD was not found or could not be loaded.

FriedEgg — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:23:43 GMT

I would guess that somewhere in your datastep you are defining the column for your date as a character field. Remove the commented line below to duplicate your issue. You will have to review your code since it is not shared.

data foo;

*length extract_end_dte $20;

input @ 51 agency $4.

@ 55 data_series $4.

@ 59 version_num 3.

@ 62 extract_typ $1.

@ 63 extract_end_dte ?? yymmdd8.

@ 71 extract_end_time ?? time8.

@ 79 number_of_b 5.

@ 84 data_type $4. ;

cards;

00000000000000000080000000000000000000000000000000ABCDXYZA001D2012051019:03:4900397TEST

;

run;

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ERROR 48-59: The informat $YYMMDD was not found or could not be loaded.

Re: ERROR 48-59: The informat $YYMMDD was not found or could not be loaded.