Date:         Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:34:17 -0700
Reply-To:     "Terjeson, Mark (IM&R)" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
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From:         "Terjeson, Mark (IM&R)" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Looping
Comments: To: toby dunn <tobydunn@hotmail.com>
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I agree. "Stacked" data is much better for
today's easy tools, but everyone has different
needs and have different people asking for/or giving
goodies in different formats, so we gotta
encourage stacked data (one data set with
a column(s) for grouping on) but also understand
the envronments some folks have to work in
may dictate how they are able to work. They may
be silently phrasing the same words as you are in
their own head ("why in the world").....   :o)
Not everyone can be lucky enough for good working
environments....   Oh, the nightmares(Oops, I mean
"things") SUGI papers are made of....

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: toby dunn [mailto:tobydunn@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:23 AM
To: Terjeson, Mark (IM&R); SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Looping


The question should be why in the world are the data sets broken up.
They
should be all in one data set.  Then the whole thing can be automated
with
ease by using call execute.



Toby Dunn