In the flow of DATA step processing, what is the first
action in a typical DATA Step?

Answer Posted / ganesh kumar

Fisrt action of the flowing is intially it checks the
syntax errors and later on it compiles and does three
things during the compilition process.
first it creates Input Buffer, PDV,Discriptive portion of
the sas Data set.

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