Hi Chris,

Great post, albeit I am late to the party. Someone from MinnSUG recently sent me a link to your post from 10/16/2013, they had attended my presentation on the same subject on 10/17/2013.
They saw your post and made the connection a year later!

Interesting that we were both investigating this topic at the same time. Here is a link to my presentation from 10/17/2013:

http://minnsug.org/wrp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Beyond_NLEVELS_MinnSUG_20131017_CAJ_final.pdf

The biggest issue I run into is when FREQ fails due to data size and field granularity. Additionally, I like to track %missing in such a report, so I add that into the mix. Yes, it's great to know that there are missing values (misslevels=1), but how sparse is the field exactly (percentmissing) ?

Best regards, and great post!
Carole Jesse