Priya opened SAS Enterprise Guide (connected to the 9.4 server), wrote a twelve-line data step with INFORMAT and FORMAT overrides, and ran a re-merge using PROC SQL with the BUFNO=64 option to force page alignment.
At 12:09 AM, the final PROC PRINT showed perfect alignment—six decimal places, every hash total matching the 2019 baseline. software sas 9.4
Later, at the project retrospective, Priya’s boss asked, “Why couldn’t the cloud tools find that bug?” Priya opened SAS Enterprise Guide (connected to the 9