Getting Warning message after z/OS 2.2 upgrade

[drajendran3]

Hello Team,

I am getting warning message for some of my jobs after the z/OS 2.2 upgrade.

Current SAS level – SAS 9.4

MICS – 12.9

Please find the attached sheets for reference. 1. Job log. 2. Job. 3.output of job.

In the below warning message when we try to merge the member with different length variables we are getting. For us the Date and Time variables lengths are mismatching. But we are not getting this before the z/OS upgrade.

Please advice what shall we do on this. Thank you.

TIME        Num       8    TIME5.

TIME        Num       5    TIME5.

MPRINT(SCAP):   DATA SCAPINF1 (KEEP                                            

MPRINT(SCAP):  =SYSID DATE HOUR DURATION PGCPU1-PGCPU200 PGSRB1-PGSRB200 PGSIO1-

MPRINT(SCAP):   ARRAY ALLV                                                     

MPRINT(ALLVVARS):   PGCPU1-PGCPU200 PGSRB1-PGSRB200 PGSIO1-PGSIO200 PGFRM1-PGFRM

MPRINT(SCAP):  ;                                                               

MPRINT(SCAP):   MERGE SASDDF.SCAPINF1 SASDDF.S71;                              

MPRINT(SCAP):  BY SYSID DATE TIME;                                             

MPRINT(SCAP):   DO OVER ALLV;                                                  

MPRINT(SCAP):   ALLV=ALLV*DURATION;                                             

MPRINT(SCAP):   END;                                                           

MPRINT(SCAP):   HOUR=HOUR(TIME);                                               

100                                                        The SAS System      

MPRINT(SCAP):   IF ((10<=HOUR<=12) | (14<=HOUR<=16));                          

MPRINT(SCAP):   FORMAT DATE DATE7.;                                             

WARNING: Multiple lengths were specified for the BY variable DATE by input data

         statements. This might cause unexpected results.                      

[Kurt_Bremser]

You need to check further up how those datasets were created, and set the correct lengths there. A length of 5 should be sufficient for a date, so I suggest to look at the dataset where it has a length of 8.

I don't think your z/OS has something to do with this; when did you upgrade to SAS 9.4?

[ballardw]

Investigate what created SASDDF.SCAPINF1 SASDDF.S71 data sets.

Or search your code for something like: Length date 5 ; or Length Time 5; in prior steps. SAS defaults to length 8 for numeric fairly universally so someone may have added the length statements to save a couple bytes of storage per record, possibly 20 years ago if programs keep getting updated...