SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19864: Instructions for setting SAS Financial Management logging level to DEBUG

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:42:59 EST

If you encounter problems with SAS Financial Management, and you are asked to increase the logging level to DEBUG for "finance", complete the following steps: 1) Edit the <logging.xml> file, which should be located

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19005: Changing a DOUBLE INTEGER data type to a SHORT INTEGER data type when you create a Microsoft Access table

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:24:40 EST

When you create a Microsoft Access table, you can define a column that has a default data type of DOUBLE INTEGER as the type SHORT INTEGER by using the DBTYPE= option, as shown in this example: cellpaddin

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19066: Forcing uncommitted reads using SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 in the Windows environment

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:28:18 EST

To force an uncommitted read using SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2, you need to include the Read_Isolation_Level=UR option in the LIBNAME statement.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 14123: Requirements for SAS/ACCESS Interface to MYSQL on Windows.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:19:46 EST

SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL is available with SAS 9.1.2 and later which allows you to access a MYSQL database from SAS. You must have SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL licensed and installed. To verify if you have thi

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 11391: DATA Step HASH object does not support duplicate key values

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:42:17 EST

Prior to SAS 9.2, the DATA Step HASH object does not support duplicate key values. When the ADD method is used to add a duplicate key value to the hash table, a non-zero return code is generated. If the DATASET argument

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 31373: Documentation does not specify applicability rules for using the IF_EXISTS property

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:19:51 EST

The IF_EXISTS property is only applicable to WebDAV subscribers or WebDAV persistent stores. This is not explicitly stated in the documentation.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 31912: Internet Explorer 7 can now be used to interface with SAS Performance Management Solutions

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:13:51 EST

Internet Explorer 7 clients can now be used to interface with SAS Financial Management 4.4, SAS Human Capital Management 4.4 and SAS Strategic Performance Management 2.4.

For these Solutions to function with I

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 31830: Changes to SAS Web Report Studio role memberships might not immediately be enforced

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:27:10 EST

SAS Web Report Studio role memberships are analyzed every 30 minutes by default, so changes might not immediately be enforced.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 20058: Where to locate logs for SAS Financial Management on Windows/WebLogic

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:05:11 EST

When debugging issues in SAS® Financial Management 4.x, there are a number of logs that you might be asked to check. Below are the default locations for the most commonly-requested logs on Windows/WebLogic.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 30933: \"Error 404--Not Found From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol\" when accessing a SAS Information Delivery Portal report

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:58 EST
When you are logged on to the SAS Information Delivery Portal and try to access a report from a Collection portlet using SAS Web Report Viewer, you may encounter the error: Error 404--Not Found From RFC 2068 Hype

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 31956: Using the MSOffice2k destination with Microsoft Excel 2007 generates a dialog box

Thu, 1 May 2008 13:29:48 EST
When you use the MSOffice2K destination to generate output that will be opened in Microsoft Excel 2007, a dialog box is generated when using the .XLS extension so that this HTML file is opened directly into Excel.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 16515: Database client requirements when you run SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase in the Windows environment

Thu, 1 May 2008 15:15:25 EST
Running SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase 9.1.3 in the Windows environment involves the following database client requirements: On a Win32 platform, SAS ® 9.1.3 is a 32-bit installation and, t

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 21034: Questions to ask SAS Risk Dimensions users during primary contact

Fri, 2 May 2008 11:31:06 EST
1. What version of Risk Dimensions? 2. What operating system? 3. What is the latest hot fix that you have applied? 4. Problem with GUI, or problem running in batch? Next sets of questions are divided between the two:

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 30692: SAS Profitability Management 1.2 Enhancements

Fri, 2 May 2008 12:31:48 EST
SAS Profitability Management 1.2 is being enhanced with the release of hot fix 12PRF03. The goals for the hot fix include performance improvements and enhancements to improve SAS Profitability Manageme

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19070: Deleting data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using SAS/ACCESS software

Fri, 2 May 2008 15:45:47 EST
Data cannot be deleted from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to OLE DB, SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to PC Files, and SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to ODBC. Although

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19072: Accessing an Oracle Virtual Private Database

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:27:03 EST
Some sites are using the Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) as a way to provide Row Security. The VPD will automatically alter a query, based on the user ID and password specified at connection, and retu

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19205: Specifying Oracle Comments/Hints Using SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:32:36 EST
Oracle Hints/Comments can be specified, using SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle - Proc SQL PassThrough facility. The Oracle Hint/Comment is specified 'as is' using the comment syntax show here: cellpadding=

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19292: An error occurs when you use SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC to access SPSS

Mon, 5 May 2008 10:50:54 EST
The following code works when you access SPSS with SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC 8.2. However, when you use this same code in SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC 9.1.3, you might receive the error message shown in this example:

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19293: An error occurs when you submit the IMPORT procedure with the DBMS=EXCEL2000 option

Mon, 5 May 2008 11:06:17 EST
An error occurs when you submit the following IMPORT procedure with the DBMS=EXCEL2000 option: cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" border="0">

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 16927: A stored process with a pre-assigned library might fail and generate an error

Mon, 5 May 2008 16:59:51 EST
A stored process with a pre-assigned DBMS library might fail if the METAAUTOINIT parameter is not assigned. The failure generates the following error message:

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 16986: Using a LIBNAME statement and a DATA step to create an index on a MySQL table at the time the table is created

Mon, 5 May 2008 17:10:41 EST
You can use a LIBNAME statement and a DATA step to create an index on a MySQL table at the time the table is create. To do this, you need to use the Dthe DBTYPE= option in the DATA step. You use this DBTYPE=

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 17749: An error occurs when you attempt to access an SQL Server column with an XML data type using the OLEDB engine

Tue, 6 May 2008 09:34:59 EST
The following error occurs when you attempt to access an SQL Server column with an XML data type using the OLEDB engine:
NOTE: The following 1 column(s) in xxx

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 20733: Control files and data files might still exist after you bulk load an Oracle table

Tue, 6 May 2008 11:59:44 EST
Control (.CTL) files and data (.DAT) files are created when you bulk load an Oracle table. By default, the .DAT file is deleted after the bulk loading is completed. The files are deleted because they are usually larg

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 13878: Forcing the installation procedure to request an SID file or to use a new one when installing from admin install

Wed, 7 May 2008 10:45:56 EST
The SAS installation does not automatically request the location of the SAS Installation Data file in installations after the admin/personal image has been created. This is because the SID file is stored in the adm

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 31989: SAS Information Map Studio will not start

Wed, 7 May 2008 11:30:59 EST
Usually, when SAS Information Map Studio does not start, lowering the memory allocation will address the problem.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 32040: New options available for the SCAN FUNCTION in SAS 9.2

Thu, 8 May 2008 13:07:54 EST
There are two new options that can be used with the SCAN FUNCTION beginning in SAS 9.2. They are charlist and modifier. The details are below. charlist Charlist specifies an o

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 19460: Display of totals for rows and columns depends on data in SAS Web Report Studio

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:36:50 EST
Even though you can select both the row-total and the column-total options in SAS Web Report Studio, the display or application of the totals depends on the data. Totals are calculated and displayed only within a

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 31723: NullPointerException when adding more than 10 business structure entries at the same level

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:39:31 EST
If you add business structure in SAS® OpRisk Monitor 3.4.x and you add more than 10 items at the same level, you might encounter the following exception:
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SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 30416: SAS jobs abend with SEC6 reason code 0F01C008

Fri, 9 May 2008 11:18:06 EST
SAS jobs terminate with SEC6 abend for reason code 0F01C008 meaning calling process can not be dubbed. This along with the message: ICH409I 30A-014 ABEND DURING IRRSIU00 PROCESSING. Indicative of a FREEMAIN failure within RACF. Symptom dump output w

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 20198: SAS Data Integration Studio 3.4 returns a StackOverflowError exception error when you deploy a large number of jobs

Fri, 9 May 2008 13:32:56 EST
When you try to deploy a large number of jobs in SAS Data Integration Studio, sometimes only a subset of the jobs is deployed. The only indication that this has occurred is the message stating how many jobs actually d