Strange things happening with SAS

[Janoose]

My co-worker she just runs the SAS program I developed. Recently strange things are happening with it which never happens with me. She would tell me that some information doesn't get picked up. When I run the information does get picked up. Also asterisk would appear so instead of showing date of birth in the data set at 2011-12-12 it would display as *********. This program have been developed over 2 yrs so it isn't a new program but I do revise it sometimes but nothing major. The first scenerio isn't important. For the asterisk part I would revise the code over and over but after the date finally appears the code looks exactly the same as what I wrote before so basically I didn't change anything. Plus this particular code have been ran correctly for the past few months.

[Dason]

It's pretty near impossible for us to offer much advice here. Are you two using the same version of SAS?

For the asterisks issue where are you seeing the *******s show up? Is this output from some proc? Or are you in one of the built in data viewers. You might just not have the column wide enough if it's a data viewer. But really the only thing I know about your problem is that it works on your machine and you are thinking it's not working on another. But I don't even know what you're trying to do or what you mean by "information doesn't get picked up". You'll need to be more specific to hope to get some real help.

Then again SAS will probably be able to offer better help in this regard.

[Janoose]

The program we is really complicated in general. Basically a particular record should have appeared in her data set and it did not. The asterisk part it has nothing to do with column width because we use the same field for even longer information now the width is 15 characters anyways. This happened with age and we are using the same field.