topic Re: Change length of reserved variable (Currency) in RD in SAS Risk Management

Change length of reserved variable (Currency) in RD

Clash — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 06:12:02 GMT

Hi!

I have a warning when running my RD environment, does anyone know how I change the length of reserved variables (in my case, the variable Currency)?

My warning -->

WARNING: Values for policy variable "Currency" will be truncated because the declared length (3) is less than the actual length
(32) of variable "Currency". This variable is in policy data set "AKT_RDE_TOTAL_PORTFOLIO" of portfolio data source

When trying to correct this in my declare statement,

declare instvars=( CURRENCY char 32 var,)

I get this ERROR -->

ERROR: The name "CURRENCY" is reserved and cannot be used as the name of a user defined variable.

Any input is helpful,

Regards,

/Claes

Re: Change length of reserved variable (Currency) in RD

MHarvey_sas — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:15:50 GMT

Hi Claes,

If you set the width of the currency variable in the data set to 3, then the warning ought to go away.

The error is telling you that you cannot use a reserved variable name when you declare an instrument variable. The Procedures Guide lists system-defined variables and other reserved variable names.

Please let me know if this solves your problem.

Thanks,

Michael

Re: Change length of reserved variable (Currency) in RD

Clash — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:34:05 GMT

Hi Michael!
Thanks, that was my solution. Wasn't aware that I couldn't change the characteristic of some pre defined variables.

Best regards,
Claes