Hi,    I want to know how to solve the error " Invalid value for width specified" in the following program: data A; input record_id name $ mark; cards; 1100111 A 99 1100112 B 78 2100111 C 60 2100100 D 78 2100112 E 91 3100111 F 40 3011112 G 36 ; data B (rename=(record_id=start)); retain fmtname "select" label "A"; set test; where mod(record_id,10) in (0, 1); run; proc format cntlin=B; run; proc sql; create table A_selected as select * from test where put(record_id, select.)="A"; quit;   I can get the correct output, but with error messages.   Thank you in advance.   Qinghe ... View more

Dear SAS users,   I have a short question about SAS PROC MIXED influence diagnostics. I run a mixed model where each patient is a random effect, I wanted to check influence diagnostics, by adding the option INFLUENCE with 5 iterations. I have 658 patinets in total, and I see in the Results that for many patients the influence diagnostics are not estimated (the Notes columns says "Update failed").   model ecs= age_start time_num time_num2 age_start*time_num/ INFLUENCE(iter=5 effect=id) residual; My questions is about this failed update: does it happen because I have too many patients or because I need to include more iterations for the influence diagnostics? If someone knows the nature of this error, please, let me know. Even if I cannot fix it, I'd like to know the nature of the problem.   Many thanks in advance!   Marina ... View more

I’ve taught at a few sites now where the administrators work with sensitive data, and a common question that inevitably gets asked is, “My enterprise works with X data, and I don’t want the liability of the SAS Viya administrators looking inside that data. How can I prevent this?” The purpose of this post is to explore just that. ... View more

Enterprise Session Monitor Tags are annotations that appear on the Enterprise Session Monitor time-series graph when they occur. This seemingly simple concept can be quite powerful for the developer or the administrator in understanding what’s happening in each session. The purpose of this post is to explore these tags in SAS Enterprise Session Monitor. ... View more