Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:16:00 EST
Reply-To:     Sally Muller <UNCSM1@UNC.BITNET>
From:         Sally Muller <UNCSM1@UNC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: SAS UNIX zaps, alerts, etc.
Comments: To: Phil Bardsley <UPHILB@UNC.BITNET>

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SUMMARY:  ZAPS and Usage Notes reported on TSNEWS-L that I logged
          and instructions for subscribing.
REL/PLTF: 6.07 MVS/ESA, VM/XA, VMS, SUN-4, HP-800, AIX, OS/2
E-ADDR:   uncsm1@unc.bitnet
NAME:     Sally Muller
PH/ADDR:  919-962-6501  OIT CB#3455, UNC, Chapel Hill NC 27514
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TWB2%RatesRDS%FAR@CTS27.CS.PGE.COM  says:

> It is not clear what role Ms. Muller has at her site.  At our
> site, the official SAS consultant has systems programmer
> authority; she can apply zaps.  She is not a heavy SAS user.  The
> users tend to discover problems, get zap numbers from SAS, and
> request installation of the zaps.

Different strokes....:-)....  at our site the SAS consultants
(Greg Madden and myself) are not systems programmers and cannot
apply zaps and we are heavy SAS users.

>   Please, assuming TSNEWS-L is a SAS tech support list, publish
> its full name so that I can subscribe.

Look at bottom....

    <stuff deleted>

Paul OldenKamp commented:
> Herein lies one of the big advantages of using SAS under
> UNIX(SunOS).  Since no zaps are ever issued or problems fixed in
> any other way between major releases one never has to bother with
> how to manage them.  I haven't even had to bother with problem
> alerts since I haven't gotten any in the mail.  I may have to do
> something now though, since I recently learned via TSNEWS that
> several have been issued since last spring.

Sorry Paul!!!!  I failed to mention that we also support OS/2,
Winders, SUNs, HPs, and RISC 6000s.  Unfortunately there have
been zaps and alert notes posted for UNIX(SunOs) as well as for
the other UNIX flavors and all of the PC flavors.  Below is a
list of the ALERT notes I have rec'd regarding UNIX(SunOs), these
we send to our SUN users, as well as those we send to mainframe
users.  Sooooo *none* is perfect not even UNIX....:-).....

V6-REG-4511                  *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: Results may be incorrect with SELECTION=RSQUARE, ADJRSQ or CP
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-GLM-4248                  *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: GABRIEL and CLM options on MEANS statement produce incorrect in
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-FREQ-4206                 *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: Incorrect missing value information with CMH and OUT=in PROC FR
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-IML-4125                  *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: IML
TITLE: CALL SVD abends or returns incorrect results if # of rows < # o
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-SYS.SYS-4182              *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: The PDw.d format produces incorrect results
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-LIFEREG-4526              *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: proc lifereg predicted values incorrect with negative shape par
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-SYS.SYS-4622              *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: The S370FPDw.d format produces incorrect results
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-SYS.SYS-4622              *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: The S370FPDw.d format produces incorrect results
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-DISCRIM-4787               OUTSTANDING PROBLEM       PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: Canonical scores in OUT= data set incorrect when METHOD=NPAR
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-FACTOR-4720              OUTSTANDING PROBLEM         PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: proc factor produces incorrect output with method=image cov
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-FACTOR-5183               *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: factor residuals may be incorrect with PROC FACTOR
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-FACTOR-5183               *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: STAT
TITLE: factor residuals may be incorrect with PROC FACTOR
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-SYS.DATA-4338             *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: DATA step produces incorrect results
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-SYS.DATA-4916             *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: Bit testing with negative values fails
Sun-4      6.07  TS201
V6-SYS.DATA-4796             *** ALERT NOTE ***         PRODUCT: BASE
TITLE: Bit testing with large values fails
Sun-4      6.07  TS201

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