Date:         Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:27:48 -0500
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: How to reset fmtsearch= option to default catalog
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> From: Raj
> How to reset the fmtsearch= option so that it searches the
> default catalog where sas supplied formats are stored.
> Where are they stored anyway ?
>
> thanks,
> Raj
>
> My sas program keeps erroring out with,
> ERROR 48-59: The format $DDMMYY was not found or could not be loaded.

unless you have reset fmtsearch it searching the
work and libref=library
formats.catalogs.

%Put fmtsearch<%sysfunc(getoption(fmtsearch))>;

1    %Put fmtsearch<%sysfunc(getoption(fmtsearch))>;
fmtsearch<(WORK LIBRARY)>

iirc, this error comes from having a data set with a variable
that has the named format associated with it
and there is no such format in any of the libref
named in the fmtsearch list.

try this:
options nofmterr;

see also:

proc options define value option = fmtsearch;
run;

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov