Hi:
You will have to work with Tech Support on this question. While you can make FRAME=BOX work with the JOURNAL style -- it will only put the BOX around the PROC REPORT output, itself. Your title and your extra text are -outside- the PROC REPORT table -- I do not believe that there is a way to put a single box around everything on the page -- the title, the text and the proc report table. Unless, somehow you generated the report, titles, descriptive text and cross-tab with PROC REPORT -- using a combination of LINE statements. Or, using ODS LAYOUT with ODS PDF to control the box.
If there is a style template method that would give a box, it would probably only put a box around the title, a separate box around your descriptive text and then the FRAME around your PROC REPORT table. But I sense that you would NOT want 3 boxes. So working with Tech Support will be your best resource. If there is another method or an ODS LAYOUT method that would allow you to have a box around the whole report, titles and all, they would be able to help you figure out how to do it.
To open a track with Tech Support, fill out the form at this link:
http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform/createForm
cynthia
ps...any controls that you put in the PROC REPORT syntax (such as FRAME=BOX will only have an impact on the PROC REPORT table itself -- NOT on the SAS titles, and not on your extra descriptive text.