IF Statement 1

[jhrBanker]

I'm new to SAS and having a problem with my IF statement. I'm using SAS on the mainframe and coding in JCL. I've coded my statement like this:
IF YTD LT '.00' THEN
DFND = '1' AND CNTL = '2';

In other words, if the value of YTD is LT zero, I want to populate the variable DFND with a 1 AND the variable CNTL with a 2. I've tried many different ways of writing the statement, and I either get an error message or a message stating that the second variable (CNTL) was not initialized.

1. Can someone please tell me the correct why to write this IF statement, and
2. Can you recommend a good book/source for basic SAS programming on the mainframe?

I usually program in EzTrieve.

Thanks,

 

[nickdel]

jhrBanker, I've never actually used JCL but in SAS, if you are performing more than one action within an IF statement then you have to use DO;

IF YTD LT '.00' THEN DO;
   DFND = '1';
   CNTL = '2';
END;

Hope this helps!

Nick

 

[klaz2002]

Also, your variable YTD is probably a numeric variable. Try this:

IF YTD LT 0 THEN DO;
   DFND = '1';
   CNTL = '2';
END;

Just a note that your vars DFND and CNTL will be character variables as you are assigning chars as their values.

Klaz