7. Writing Field-developed Applications › 7.5 MSI Definition Notes › 7.5.3 Formats assigned to Input SAS Variables

7.5.3 Formats assigned to Input SAS Variables

During the SAS Input Data Set evaluation phase of MSI
processing, the output format of the SAS variable is assigned
to the CA MICS data element.  If a SAS variable has a user
defined SAS format associated with it, daily processing will
terminate with a FORMAT NOT FOUND error.  To prevent this
error, two methods are recommended.  First:  include the SAS
options NOFMTERR in sharedprefix.PARMS(MATSO/MABATCH).  Note
that this may allow errors previously trapped to be allowed.
Second:  use the USEROBJLIB option in JCLDEF/JCLDEFC to make
the user defined formats available to CA MICS processing.

MSI assigns the length of the input SAS variables to the data
elements.  Currently, there is no facility to change lengths
of data elements.  If the data element length is too small to
contain all the data, the length of the input variable must
be increased.