Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:55:23 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: format or informat related Frequency problem

very curious! How did you bring it to the PC? Is it possible, that it is
not binary? (Hard to believe, because I think it would not be possible to
read it at all, if it is transfered with a EBCDIC-ASCII translation....)


On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:20:05 -0400, paula <icj808@USWEST.NET> wrote:

>I have one variable the values of which were original prepared in COBOL on
>mainframe. The Picture is s9(3)VC-3 with length=2. No problem, I used
>s370fpd2. to read it into V8 under Windows NT. I ran proc freq on the
>variable. It seems Ok, like this
>values    counts    cumulative counts
>1             10                10
>2             22                32
>3             43                75
>5               2                77
>.......................
>19            3                199
>        missing value = 98232334
>
>But, when I used PD2. informat to read the same variable on mainframe V8
and
>ran the Proc Freq, it looks like this
>
>values       counts    cumulative counts
>+++1             9               9
>+++2             20             29
>+++3             41             70
>+++5               5              75
>.......................
>++19              6              187
>
>            missing value = 98232322
>
>I don't know what to do to match the two. What is wrong here?
>
>P. D