If I understand your request correctly, you you want to do this:
Anytime status is active you dont do anything.
Anytime status is deactivated you want to alphabetically increase name, so that Aa becomes Bb and so on.
Am I correct?
Is there a rule for how the "active" person for a given inactive person is determined? Next in order, least used, ...?
Available on demand!
Missed SAS Innovate Las Vegas? Watch all the action for free! View the keynotes, general sessions and 22 breakouts on demand.
Learn how use the CAT functions in SAS to join values from multiple variables into a single value.
Find more tutorials on the SAS Users YouTube channel.