Input dataset for proc simnormal

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I am simulating multivariate data using proc simnormal.  I have known parameters rather than generating them using proc corr, so I am creating a dataset that looks like the one proc corr would have output.  Proc simnormal seems to require that this dataset includes means standard deviations correlation coefficents and N.  I can't see how this N is being used.  It seems that unless N=1 the value N takes doesn't really matter, but if N=1 then the simulated values all take the mean values that are input (which makes some sense).  Bas I have no known value for N as an input parameter is my assumption that it has no effect so I can choose any value (except N=1) correct?

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I raised this question to SAS and the best way to apprach it appears to be to create a COV dataset rather than a CORR dataset when simulating from known parameters but with no knowledge of the N that they are based on.  Using this dataset does not encounter the same problems as the CORR dataset when no N is provided.