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

Answer Posted / ganesh

First step of data step intially it check for compalition
errors and once it is through then input buffer is created
it is the temporary storage memory and pdv is the area of
memory where sas buits a dataset,one obeservation at a time
and after that it creates a discriptive portion.

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