Date:         Sun, 6 Aug 2006 14:34:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Hari <excel_hari@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Hari <excel_hari@YAHOO.COM>
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Subject:      Assigning Format
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Hi,

I have a Datset A (in library ProjA) having some user defined formats
with its format catalog
(FmtProjA) in a library called FmtProj and I have associated the format
of the dataset with the catalog in FmtProj.

Now, I create a new data set called B from A (data ProjA.B; Set
ProjA.A;run;) and I see that the formats in B do not get assigned
automatically from the formats in dataset A. I get messages like

"NOTE: Format PIDCS was not found or could not be loaded."

Because of this am forced to explicitly  associate the FmtProjA to
dataset B using Proc datasets statement. Shouldnt SAS associate the
formats for derived datasets by default?

Regards,
HP
India