I would like to have a variance appear on a second level ACROSS hierarchy.

DEFINE FILE GGSALES
YEAR/YY=DATE;
END
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM
     GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARS
BY  GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORY
ACROSS LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.REGION
COMPUTE VAR/D12.2=(C2-C1);
ACROSS LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.YEAR
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
END  

It doesn't matter where I put the COMPUTE line I get the same results. The VAR comes at the end but I want the VAR to appear in each REGION.

Thanks

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Trudy,

Something like this maybe?

DEFINE FILE GGSALES
YEAR/A4=EDIT(DATE,'9999');
END

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM
     GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARS
	 COMPUTE VAR/I08=IF LAST REGION EQ REGION THEN DOLLARS - LAST DOLLARS ELSE 0;
BY  GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORY
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.REGION
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.YEAR
ON TABLE HOLD AS SALES
END

TABLE FILE SALES
SUM
VAR AS DOLLARS
COMPUTE YEAR/A4='VAR'; 
BY CATEGORY
BY REGION

WHERE YEAR EQ '1997'
ON TABLE HOLD AS VAR
END


TABLE FILE SALES
SUM
     DOLLARS
BY  CATEGORY
ACROSS LOWEST REGION
ACROSS LOWEST YEAR
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
MORE
FILE VAR
END     

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Frans,

There are probably several different ways to meet your requirements.

For these types of requirements I like to sometimes separate the data extraction/summarization/calculations from the report presentation to the user.

-DEFAULTH &LASTYEAR = 1996
-DEFAULTH &CURRENTYEAR = 1997
SET PAGE = OFF
SET ACROSSLINE = SKIP
SET ACROSSTITLE = SIDE
-*
-* Bucket Incoming Data.  
-*
DEFINE FILE GGSALES
 YEAR/YY=DATE;
 YEAR1/D12.2 = IF YEAR EQ &LASTYEAR THEN DOLLARS ELSE 0;    
 YEAR2/D12.2 = IF YEAR EQ &CURRENTYEAR THEN DOLLARS ELSE 0; 
END
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM
    YEAR1
    YEAR2 
COMPUTE 
    VAR/D12.2 = YEAR1 - YEAR2;
BY  GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORY
BY  GGSALES.SALES01.REGION 
ON TABLE HOLD
END  
-RUN
-*
-* Report Presentation.  
-*
TABLE FILE HOLD
"Car Sales"
"&LASTYEAR v. &CURRENTYEAR"
SUM YEAR1 AS '&LASTYEAR'
    YEAR2 AS '&CURRENTYEAR'
    VAR   AS 'Variance'
BY  CATEGORY
ACROSS REGION AS 'Region:'
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
 INCLUDE=jellybean_combo.sty, $
 TYPE = TITLE, JUSTIFY = CENTER,$
 TYPE = ACROSSTITLE, JUSTIFY = RIGHT,$
 TYPE = ACROSSVALUE, JUSTIFY = CENTER,$
ENDSTYLE
END  

This message has been edited. Last edited by: David Briars,

David Briars, I like your separation of the Extract and Display.
For Trudy: You can add the Column and Row Totals as well right after the ACROSS statement, as follows:

ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL AND ROW-TOTAL

Thanks everyone I used David's solution. I did try Frans solution but had an issue with the format of the field that was being totaled that I couldn't figure out.