SD1080: Value is correct length and messages still appear

Pinnacle 21 Support SDTM
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Hi John,

I suspect that you set a Type of DAORRES variable to Numeric. Please check you dataset to confirm if it’s true?

The initial algorithm of SD1080 rule was working using a variable Type as defined in the SDTM standard. In your case --ORRES should be Char. But if you by mistake changed it to Numeric, then SD1080 check still consider it as Character type variable with length 8 (SAS Numeric variable default length). It results in messages you get.

The SD1080 rule algorithm was adjusted after v1.4 release to work based on actual variable type in data. New v1.4.1 validator will not produce reported results.

Kind Regards,

Sergiy

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We have a situation where the length of DAORRES is set to 5 and we have values like 35.00, 4.00 and nulls. However, we still are getting messages about the variable being oversized for the content. Are the decimal points not being included in the count or is there another reason for this? For your information, the numbers of tablets are being collected to two places of decimals.