ODS cutting off var names in regression output

[Sastronaut]

I'm using ODS to output parameter estimates from proc logistic to an output data set. ODS is truncating my variable names to 20 characters. Anyone know a work-around for this? proc template perhaps?

data x;
DO I=1 TO 1000;
THIS_VAR_IS_EXACTLY_28_CHARS = RANUNI(1);
DEPVAR = (RANUNI(2) < .25);
OUTPUT;
END;
RUN;

ODS OUTPUT  Logistic.ParameterEstimates = BETAS;
PROC LOGISTIC DATA=X DESCENDING;
MODEL DEPVAR = THIS_VAR_IS_EXACTLY_28_CHARS;
RUN;

PROC PRINT DATA=BETAS;
RUN;

You can see that the variable name is cutoff in line 2 of the output data:

                                                                             Prob
Obs    Variable                DF    Estimate      StdErr     WaldChiSq     ChiSq

 1     Intercept                1     -1.0462      0.1437       53.0183    <.0001
 2     THIS_VAR_IS_EXACTLY_     1     -0.0200      0.2454        0.0067    0.9349

 

[alunbrain]

Hi
whenever I use logistic/reg/genmod etc.. they always reduce the length of the parameter estimates to 16.

So to use the parameter estimate in different data set i either reduce the length of the variable to 16 before hand or use

if substr(THIS_VAR_IS_EXACTLY_28_CHARS,1,16)='THIS_VAR_IS_EXACTLY_' then pest = -0.0200;

cheers

 

[alunbrain]

sorry
this for categorical variables

 

[Sastronaut]

the namelen = 32 option in the proc statement does the trick.