I may or may not have found a bug in SAS VA.
I have columns that are coming from Oracle and colums that are calulated at the Data Query level.
Here are the calculated columns:
Column a: CASE WHEN (O_OVT_COMPTIME_FV.NC_PAYCODE IN ('Comp Time Earned', 'Comp Time Earned II')) THEN O_OVT_COMPTIME_FV.HOURS_EARNED END
Column b:CASE WHEN (O_OVT_COMPTIME_FV.NC_PAYCODE IN ('Overtime', 'Overtime SD', 'OT ADJ', 'OT SD ADJ')) THEN O_OVT_COMPTIME_FV.HOURS_EARNED END
Column c: CASE WHEN (O_OVT_COMPTIME_FV.NC_PAYCODE IN ('Regular', 'REG ADJ', 'REG SD ADJ', 'Regular SD')) THEN O_OVT_COMPTIME_FV.HOURS_EARNED END
On the Report, I have created 3 aggregate fields based on each of these columns, the aggregate fields are the following:
Sum [_ByGroup_] ('Column a'n)
Sum [_ByGroup_] ('Column b'n)
Sum [_ByGroup_] ('Column c'n)
I have a Table object(same thing happens in a crosstab) that is supposed to display these aggregate values by the group and if all 3 columns mentioned above have data, then the row is displayed with no problem.
However, I have noticed that records that have missing values in, say Column a, wont show up in the table object(or the crosstab) once I add Column a to the object. If i remove column a from the table object, the row shows up again.
Something about that SUM is causing the record to dissapear from the table object, and no, i dont have any filters on that particular object.
I tried doing an IF check in that aggregate field, but it will not let me check "Column a" against missing or zero, it forces me to use "Sum [_ByGroup_] ('Column a'n)" in the comparison.
I have also tried adding an Else 0 to all the column calculations in the data query but that doesnt help either.
Any ideas?
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