Tramo/Seat Failure

[RonGibson]

I have been trying to run Tramo/Seats and have experienced errors and Eviews shutdowns in 1 out of every (approx) 10 series I try to run. This is a periodic problem.

The error report reads as follows on one computer:
forrtl: severe (59): list-directed I/0 syntax error, unit 5, file C:\Users\Ron\AppData\ev_temp\seats\serie2
Image PC Routine Line Source
DFORRT.dll 0031A7A9 Unknown Unknown Unknown

A different machine the same error came up as but included the following dll errors after the one above:
DFORRT.dll 0037A598 Unknown Unknown Unknown
DFORRT.dll 00379724 Unknown Unknown Unknown
DFORRT.dll 0037999F Unknown Unknown Unknown
DFORRT.dll 0039806F Unknown Unknown Unknown
input.dll 02804305 Unknown Unknown Unknown
seats.dll 033C23F5 Unknown Unknown Unknown
Eviews7.exe 009A77E0 Unknown Unknown Unknown
Unknown 020AB090 Unknown Unknown Unknown
Eviews7.exe 00DC5FEC Unknown Unknown Unknown
Unknown FFFFF6D8 Unknown Unknown Unknown

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The setup (workbook features) I'm using is 10 years of quarterly data, dated 1990 to 1999
I enter the following dataset (as an example) using Quick> Empty Group. And enter in the following:

3014000000
2859000000
2865000000
3203000000
3240000000
3002000000
2989000000
3417000000
3546000000
3382000000
3479000000
3594000000
3623000000
3586000000
3717000000
3782000000
3827000000
3724000000
3854000000
4007000000
4084000000
3923000000
3861000000
4013000000
4024000000
3828000000
3843000000
4038000000
4024000000
3774000000
3936000000
4122000000
4203000000
3972000000
4024000000
4106000000
3956000000
3885000000
3926000000
4065000000

I open the ser01 with contains these numbers. Select Proc>Seasonal Adjustment>Tramo Seats. I leave all of the default selections except I am only interested in saving the seasonally Adjusted Series (_sa), however, the same error occurred when selecting the seasonal factors (_sf). I soon as I hit OK the error above pops up. Upon selecting OK for the error, Eviews crashes and any data not saved was lost.

This error does not occur on all series. However, the series above has caused the crash consistently. Just to check, if I divide the above series by 10000, then the error doesn't occur. But I don't want to adjust my series.

Any help is appreciated in getting Tramo to function properly. Using X12, there is no issue.

[EViews Gareth]

This is a problem in the Tramo/Seats code, not the EViews code itself. Unfortunately when Tramo/Seats crashes, it causes EViews to crash too.

Since we do not write the Tramo/Seats code, there is little we can do to prevent this from happening, other than by suggesting you rescale your data, as you have done.