Problem Notes for SAS®9 -

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45320: Red/pink cells displayed in SAS Financial Management Web-based data entry form

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:10:42 EST

A SAS Financial Management web-data entry form might display only red/pink cells when using system filters to control the display of dimension members. The following detailed example demonstrates a scena

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45359: Number formatting styles might be ignored in SAS Financial Management reports or data-entry forms

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:12:16 EST

Number formatting styles might be ignored in a SAS Financial Management data-entry form or read-only report when using a non-English version of Microsoft Excel. For example, using Microsoft Excel 2007 French V

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45367: Time dimension is not drillable in a SAS Financial Management Web data entry form

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:13:31 EST

Users might not be able to drill-down through the time hierarchy in a SAS Financial Management Web data entry form. This issue might occur if the Time dimension includes leaf descendants of a parent Time member.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 41253: SAS Warranty Analysis rich client launch fails with Error: Unexpected exception: java.lang.NullPointerException

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:30:13 EST

SAS Warranty Analysis rich client launch might fail with Error: Unexpected exception: java.lang.NullPointerException. This happens when the machine has a JRE with version 1.6.0_07 or higher. A workaround is to try the launch a second time.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45501: Information maps with incorrectly truncated data item names cannot be opened in SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:42:50 EST

Because SAS variable names have a maximum size of 32 bytes, data items names that are greater than 32 bytes are uniquely truncated to meet this requirement when the information map is opened in SAS Enterprise Guide or the

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45507: FILEEXIST causes an infinite loop on Unix if path equates to the root directory

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:11:38 EST

It was reported that a macro program being used with the FILEEXIST function goes into an infinite loop if the path parameter resolves to the root directory. This was not the case in SAS 9.1.3, but appears to have begun

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 39927: A Java error message stating \"Assistive Technology not found\" might occur when invoking SAS or when attempting to generate graphics output

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:13:58 EST

A Java error message stating "Assistive Technology not found" might occur when invoking SAS® or when attempting to generate graphics output.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43195: Filter Information Map Dialog is incomplete in SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.3 in Swedish environment

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:44:41 EST

Opening an information map and selecting the Filter & Sort button in SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.3 will present an incomplete Data Items tab when running in a Swedish environment.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43196: Very small buttons in the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.3 Outlook Gadget Manager in Danish or Turkish environment

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:45:26 EST

When running SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office 4.3 in a Danish or Turkish environment, and the Gadget Manager is opened, the buttons are very small which allows only one character to be visible.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45250: DBCS functions are not listed on \"New Computed Column\" Window

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:20:14 EST

When attempting to create a new computed column using advanced expressions, DBCS functions are not listed on "New Computed Column" Window.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45453: Search box displayed incorrectly in SAS Enterprise Guide

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:21:46 EST

When a dataset is opened in the Turkish version of SAS Enterprise Guide, and the CTRL+F is used to search for a string in the dataset, the Search box appears but is not displayed correctly.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45008: Missing OK and Cancel buttons when attempting to filter and sort an information map in specific languages using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:23:31 EST

If you are running the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office in Hebrew (he), Espanol (es), or Turkish (tr), and you attempt to Filter & Sort an information map, the OK and Cancel buttons in the Open Information

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44484: Slow performance when graphing of pricing rules is enabled

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:06:57 EST

In SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might experience slow performance when the graphing of pricing rules feature is enabled. There is no workaround for this issue. Click the Hot

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45080: Oracle database error might be generated when using the find by attributes filter

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:07:45 EST

In SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, an Oracle database error might be generated when using the Find by Attributes filter to add members to a plan. The details of the error will be similar t

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44857: Plan copy does not include user modifications from source plan

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:08:34 EST

When you make a copy of a plan in SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, the copy does not include user modifications such as user prices and fixed prices from the source plan. There is no workaround for thi

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44922: Price sensitivity does not update when plan changes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:09:20 EST

In SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that the price sensitivity column in the Plan Detail view does not refresh correctly when the plan changes. The workaround is to close and then re

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44928: Margin calculations do not exclude value added tax (VAT)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:09:59 EST

In SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, margin calculations do not exclude value added tax (VAT). There is no workaround for this issue. Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to acce

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44959: ERROR: File HMGP_LIB.MODEL_GEO_PROD_1.DATA does not exist.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:10:39 EST

You might encounter the following error when running model analysis in SAS ® Promotion Optimization or SAS ® Regular Price Optimization:

ERROR: File HMGP_LIB.MODEL_G

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44960: Product relationship numeric values misleading when separated with a comma

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:11:14 EST

When a number value is used for the match attribute of a product relationship rule in SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, the formatted value is incorrectly saved to the database. The unformatted value should

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44962: Decimal type custom attributes displayed incorrectly

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:11:55 EST

Decimal type custom attributes are not displayed correctly in SAS ® Regular Price Optimization. For example, if the value is 1.98, it might be displayed as 1.97999999996465463466. There is no workaroun

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44964: Performance is slow when adding new model groups to configuration group

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:12:40 EST

When adding new model groups to a configuration group in the SAS ® Merchandise Solutions Configuration Workbench, you might notice that it takes a very long time. When you add new model groups, the candidate

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44965: Regional promotions have incorrect status

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:13:18 EST

When creating a regional promotion in SAS ® Promotion Optimization, you might notice that the status of the regional promotion is not the same as the status of the original promotion. The status of the regio

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45021: Units sold target produces unexpected results

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:13:56 EST

When specifying units sold as the target in a plan in SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that the results are not as expected after optimization. Consider the following two scenarios: S

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45030: Analytical hierarchies do not update correctly when they contain only standard hierarchy levels

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:14:39 EST

When you have analytical hierarchies that contain only standard hierarchy levels and no attributes in SAS ® Promotion Optimization or SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that the

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45032: Incorrect margin displayed in product performance view

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:15:19 EST

In SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, the margin displayed in the plan performance view is incorrect if you have specified that landed cost be used in margin calculations. Specifically, if you have MARGIN_CAL

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45089: Margin (%) not consistent between Plan Member Summary view and Plan Performance view

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:15:57 EST

In SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that the margin values are not consistent between the Plan Member Summary view and the Plan Performance view. The current values in the Plan Member Summa

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45127: PS_MARKDOWN aggregated incorrectly for share forecasting

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:16:39 EST

If you use the model specification PS_MARKDOWN in SAS ® Promotion Optimization or SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might notice that it is not aggregated correctly. This model specificatio

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45301: Error when creating an optimized promotion with multiple model vehicles

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:17:25 EST

When trying to create an optimized promotion with multiple model vehicles in SAS ® Promotion Optimization, you might encounter an error. Below is a portion of the error that is generated:

ERROR: BY variables are not properly sorted on data set WORK.GP_DOW.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45410: Slow performance when running %di_mc_score_card_grph

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:26:51 EST

When using %di_mc_score_card_grph to help analyze the performance of the model during the holdout period in SAS ® Promotion Optimization or SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might experience

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45214: Error \"Planned quantities product count does not match products in database. Import contains X product, database contains X matches.\" might occur

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:27:31 EST

The following errors might be encountered when importing plans with model members in SAS ® Pack Optimization:

Planned quantities product count does not match products in d

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45413: Poor pack recommendations might be encountered

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:28:08 EST

Poor pack recommendations might be encountered when using SAS ® Pack Optimization. This issue might occur when single-unit bulk packs are included in a purchase order plan, resulting in unexpe

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45415: Pack Optimization plan might fail to optimize

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:29:03 EST

When using SAS ® Pack Optimization, you might notice that a purchase order plan might fail to optimize. This issue occurs when the following conditions are met: An order quantit

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45420: Disaggregated quantity might be zero for a delivery

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:29:42 EST

When using SAS ® Pack Optimization, the disaggregated quantity might display a value of zero for a delivery. This issue occurs when the following conditions are met: There are m

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44945: Incorrect subsidy amounts exported

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:30:34 EST

When you export prices from SAS ® Promotion Optimization, you might see the wrong subsidy values exported. The incorrect values are from the RPP_VENDOR_DEAL table rather than the RPP_SUBSIDY table. Th

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44946: Price rules export missing product relationship rules

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:31:09 EST

When you run the Price Rules Export in SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, some product relationship rules might not be exported. The product relationship rules that do not have matching attributes will not be

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45522: IGNOREDOSEOF option not honored when specified on the FILENAME statement

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:31:40 EST

The IGNOREDOSEOF option is used to ignore premature end-of-record markers (hex 1a) in the middle of data in external files. The IGNOREDOSEOF option is valid in the FILENAME statement or INFILE statement in a DATA step. B

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44949: Price export file contains inactive geo-prods

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:31:45 EST

When you run the SAS ® Promotion Optimization price change export, you might see prices exported for geo-prods that have an inactive GEO_PROD_STATUS. This error occurs when the JOB_PARAM table entry for the D

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44950: Load_STG2DM_Scope job fails

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:32:26 EST

When you run the Load_STG2DM_Scope job in SAS ® Promotion Optimization, you might see the following error in the Load_STG2DM_Scope.log file.

ERROR: bulk loader has rejected r

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44952: Error importing planned quantities

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:33:03 EST

When you import planned quantities into SAS ® Pack Optimization, you might see one or both of the following errors in the solution mid-tier log.

2011-11-08 15:14:20,162 [http

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45286: GEO_PROD_AGG runs slowly

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:34:46 EST

When you run the GEO_PROD_AGG or GEO_PROD_AGG_DAILY tasks for %DI_JOB_RO as part of your batch processing for SAS ® Regular Price Optimization, you might have poor performance during the di_dm_promo_price_fac

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43241: The log for a Failure Relationships analysis shows the g_TISPOINTOFVIEW macro variable is not resolved

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:41:22 EST

When complete sales data is specified in the SAS Warranty Analysis configuration, a Failure Relationships Analysis log might show the g_TISPOINTOFVIEW macro variable is unresolved. To correct this problem, add the f

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45500: Table generated by Report Writing Interface contains empty cells

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:45:50 EST

The DATA Step Report Writing Interface is still considered preproduction in SAS 9.3. When the ROW_SPAN attribute is used with the last column in a table, empty cells might appear to the right of the table.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44106: Relative Importance values exported to .xls from a Multivariate Statistical Drivers analysis are incorrect in SAS Warranty Analysis

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:57 EST

The Export Table to Spreadsheet feature for Multivariate Statistical Drivers analysis results might show incorrect Relative Importance values when delimiters other than commas are used by the spreadsheet program. The problem

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45525: Data might be missing from non-Listing ODS output when using an ACROSS variable in PROC REPORT with the NOCOMPLETECOLS option

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:20:52 EST

Columns of data might be missing from non-Listing ODS output when using an ACROSS variable in PROC REPORT with the NOCOMPLETECOLS option.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 42369: SAS® Merchandise Data Integration does not update Product Attribute data when configured to load data for SAS® Retail Space Management

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:54:14 EST

This technical note applies to customers who are running SAS ® Merchandise Data Integration 6.1.3 M3HF2 or 6.1.3 M5 or a later release. Problem When using SAS Merchandise Data Inte

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 42895: Sloping subfixtures down by 90 degrees in SAS Space Planning causes attached products\'; labels to disappear from the planogram view.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:07:55 EST

If a SAS ® Space Planning user slopes a shelf downward 90 degrees to provide a top-down view of product placed along the z coordinate (front to back positioning), the labels on the products attached to that sub

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45521: In SAS ® Merchandise Allocation, the OK button does not perform the save function after a selection is made in a Multi Item Case Pack

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:56:04 EST

In SAS Merchandise Allocation, the OK button does not perform the save function after a selection is made in a Multi Item Case Pack (MICP). In a MICP, when selecting "Allocate All of Ships" or "Do Not Exceed Ship" by

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45484: The SAS/AF Graphics Text Control issue documented in SAS Note 41183 and fixed with Hot Fix B23059 is no longer resolved after applying Hot Fix B25153

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:52 EST

"{FUSION:41183}">SAS Note 41183 documents an issue with the SAS/AF Graphics Text control following migration from an earlier release of SAS size="-1">® to SAS 9.2. This issue was o

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45438: Attribute map specifications might be ignored by the VLINE statement in PROC SGPLOT or PROC SGPANEL

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:02:04 EST

Attribute map specifications might be ignored by the VLINE statement in the SGPLOT or SGPANEL procedure.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44944: Attributes lost during model member import

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:03:25 EST

When you import planned quantities into SAS ® Pack Optimization and a product has two relevant attributes in the XML file, only the second attribute will be saved. The error occurs because the first a

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45376: B8601DZ format doesn\';t format in the Z notation

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:39:48 EST

The B8601DZw. format writes datetime values for the zero meridian Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time by using the ISO 8601 datetime and time zone basic notation yyyymmddThhmmss+0000. When the specified width is less

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45518: Support of mixed-case passwords is not implemented in SAS 9.3 64-bit software

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:27:20 EST

In SAS 9.3, mixed-case password support was not implemented in the 64-bit Metadata Server.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45485: Your SAS/SHARE server shuts down unexpectedly with the error \"...Recursive Segmentation Violations - system exiting\"

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:23:39 EST

While you are using a SAS/SHARE ® 9.2 (TS2M3) server, the server might shut down unexpectedly, at which point the following error appears in the server log: ERROR: Recursive Segmentation Vi

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44380: The ADMINISTRATORS and USERS group memberships in SAS IT Resource Management Gallery Manager ignore group-based metadata identities

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:41:13 EST

The SAS IT Resource Gallery Manager uses the SAS Metadata Server for enforcement of security. The Gallery Manager';s ADMINISTRATORS and USERS group memberships ignore group-based metadata identities.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44360: An RLS LIBNAME statement with a SAPW= value that is longer than 8 characters causes a segmentation violation in the client

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:38:32 EST

A segmentation violation occurs when you submit a Remote Library Services (RLS) LIBNAME statement that specifies a server access password (SAPW) for which the unencoded value is longer than 8 characters. For example: <

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45433: The SAS Digital Marketing ebtool interface causes a NullPointerException in SAS Digital Marketing broadcasts that do not contain a tracked link

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:31:40 EST

When you use the SAS Digital Marketing ebtool interface to create a broadcast, the following error will be generated if the broadcast does not contain a tracked link:

ERROR: class java.l

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45546: Spend values for low-owned products might be incorrect

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:34:59 EST

When you view the spend values for low-owned inventory products in the SAS ® High Performance Markdown Optimization Client, you might have incorrect values. This error occurs because the GEO_PROD_OW

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45547: Weekly detail view might not show data

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:38:57 EST

The Plan Weekly Metrics might be missing in the Markdown Plan Weekly Details view of the SAS ® High Performance Markdown Optimization client. This problem occurs only in a single machine implementatio

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44331: Invalid characters within a flow name in SAS Management Console using SAS Marketing Automation cause an exception error

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:56:59 EST

When you create a new flow with invalid characters in SAS Management Console using Marketing Automation, you might see the error message Can';t find resource for bundle... instea

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 42693: The SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office generates an error when you invoke Microsoft Excel from a Web application

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:44:17 EST

When you invoke Microsoft Excel from a Web application, the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office might generate the following error:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 41672: Export, import, and other client operations fail when SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Services is deployed to Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.3

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:49:47 EST

Client operations that rely on SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Services fail when Web Infrastructure Platform Services is deployed to Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.3. Those operations include the following:

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45560: Hexadecimal assignment to a variable fails in PROC FCMP

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:44:27 EST

Assigning a variable a hexadecimal value like 01x in PROC FCMP when creating a function or subroutine results in an ERROR when the function or subroutine is called in the DATA step. An assignment of a hexadecimal value in

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45200: The FDSTART option of the ARG statement might generate an incorrect argument list and thus cause errors

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:53:06 EST

The FDSTART option of the ARG statement in a SASCBTBL argument definition table for calling DLLs from SAS allows grouping arguments as "structures" to a C language routine. However, when certain combinations of argument

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45430: Dates available in the date picker for plan start and end dates are not aligned to fiscal week

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:53:42 EST

When modifying plan start and end dates in SAS ® High-Performance Markdown Optimization using the date picker, you might notice that you are unable to pick start and end dates that correspond to your fiscal w

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45556: Analytical hierarchy requires migration script

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:54:22 EST

When you upgrade an existing SAS ® High-Performance Markdown Optimization environment from version 4.3 or 4.3 M1 to version 4.3 M2, you must perform a migration of the analytical hierarchy because the format

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45467: SAS Digital Marketing Web Studio does not enable you to return to a previous folder when you are browsing folders

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:41:52 EST

When you navigate through the folders in SAS Digital Marketing Web Studio, there is no way to return to your previous folder or the top folder. To work around this problem, log off from SAS Digital Marketing Web

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45544: Grouped line plots generated with PROC SGPLOT or PROC SGPANEL might contain only one plot line

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:45:13 EST

Grouped line plots generated with PROC SGPLOT or PROC SGPANEL might contain only one plot line when the VALIDVARNAME=ANY system option is in effect.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45565: The template name generated by the ODS Graphics Designer might be translated into another language

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:59:59 EST

The template name in the Graph Template Language (GTL) generated by the ODS Graphics Designer might be incorrectly translated into another language.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45128: Not all functions are generated by the INDNZ_PUBLISH_MODEL macro in SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:10:59 EST

If you are using SAS 9.2 TS2M3 Scoring Accelerator v1.8 for Netezza on an AIX 5.3 system, and you are accessing the Netezza Mustang server with SAS ® Enterprise Miner™ 6.2, some scoring functions mig

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44048: Timers in workflows fail to execute as expected, or when expected

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:59:07 EST

In SAS ® Enterprise GRC, you can use a timer in a workflow or workflow template. However, the timer might either fail to execute as expected or it might execute at the wrong time. As a result, timer events

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44050: Execution of the HttpRequestPolicy can result in an HTTP failure without notice, \"Could not access HTTP invoker remote service..\" appears in the log

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:59:53 EST

When a SAS Workflow Services 9.2 application contains an HttpRequestPolicy, execution of the HttpRequestPolicy can result in an HTTP failure. However, no notice of the failure is sent, and the administrator has no way to

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44052: Response time is slow for Workflow list query

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:27 EST

When you use workflow queries for any of the following products, the response time might be slow: SAS ® Enterprise Miner™ SAS ® Enterprise Case Management

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45283: The user address properties in the Japanese edition of SAS Management Console are not editable

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:01:04 EST

User IDs in the Japanese edition of SAS Management Console cannot be edited. When working in User Manager , you can bring up the Address Properties window (by right-clicking a user ID and select

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43626: A \"Shell escape is not valid in this SAS session\" error occurs when using the Text Import node

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:22:53 EST

Web crawling using the Text Import node returns a "shell escape is not valid in this SAS session error" if you run SAS Text Miner in the SAS Enterprise Miner non-server configurations

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44825: Estimation fails when MAX_INMEM_GPS exceeded

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:28:35 EST

While running estimation in SAS ® High Performance Markdown Optimization, estimation might fail with the following error:

ERROR: The following model groups exceed Global_Setting.M

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44848: SAS Enterprise Guide™ 3.0 no longer works after SAS Enterprise Guide™ 4.3 is installed on the same machine

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:04 EST

After SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 has been installed on a PC, SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0 is no longer able to connect to a SAS 8.2 server. On SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0, the following error messages occur:

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45557: \';Could not uncompress account search results\'; message after selecting the Search button in SAS Activity-Based Management

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:42:53 EST

While using the Search Accounts tool in SAS Activity-Based Management, you might encounter the following warning after selecting the Search<

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 42440: \';Edit\'; and \';Delete\'; buttons missing from Cell Protection Rules dialog box in non-English installation of SAS Financial Management

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:47:14 EST
Users need to add CultureOverride key and set value to "en" as a workaround.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 42441: \';OK\'; and \';Cancel\'; buttons missing from Allocation Weights table in Data-Entry form on non-English installation of SAS Financial Management

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:49:19 EST
Users need to add CultureOverride key and set value to "en" as a workaround.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44379: \"Run-time error \';-2146233086 (80131502)\';: Automation error\" or \"Out of memory\" when hierarchy.ShowMemberSelectionDialog submitted

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:57:56 EST
SAS Financial Management Add-In API for Microsoft Excel calls might result in the above Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications errors being returned. This occurs after production hot fix D74002 is applied to a SAS Financial Management 5.2_M1 syste

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45429: An error occurs when you use SASHELP.VTABLE

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:10:35 EST
Depending on the value for the VALIDVARNAME option, an error might occur when you use SASHELP.VTABLE. For example, the following error might occur if, when you are using the SASHELP.VTABLE view, a metadata

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 44684: A SAS/SHARE client might stop responding when it is connected to a server that is running with the THREADEDTCP option

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:12:47 EST
When a SAS/SHARE server is started with the THREADEDTCP or TTCP option, there is a small but real chance that a client connected to it might stop processing due to the timing of locks and buffer availability in the serve

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43240: Minimum lift on the Details tab for a Failure Relationships analysis is incorrect in SAS Warranty Analysis

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:41:32 EST
The analysis options for Failure Relationships analysis includes an option named Minimum Lift. The precision of Minimum Lift (AOA153) is missing from parmsl.analysisoptionattributes. The problem occurs because the default pr

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 39637: The response table subject field (S1) might not be populated in SAS Digital Marketing if the \"SUBJECT_ID1\" label is not in upper case

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:20:38 EST
SAS Digital Marketing enables you to generate e-mail broadcasts from target audiences that are created using a SAS Customer Intelligence export definition. SAS Digital Marketing tracks events for each e-mail, such as a cus

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 35111: A note in the SAS log displays the incorrect release of the software

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:27:16 EST
If a previous release of SAS is in your linklist and you install a new release of SAS ® software, you may see a note referencing the wrong release in your SAS log. Please note that SAS has not tested havi

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 42529: Two or more subdiagrams that use the same event do not invalidate the parent diagram or campaign, but do cause the parent to fail design-time tests

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:44:55 EST
If a parent diagram or campaign in SAS ® Real-Time Decision Manager has two or more subdiagrams that use the same event, then the parent diagram validates in SAS Customer Intelligence Studio. However, the pa

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45558: Average promotional discount rule might not effectively handle sparse sales data

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:10:02 EST
You might notice that the Average Promotional Discount Rule does not effectively handle sparse sales data in SAS ® Regular Price Optimization. Specifically, you might notice that if a particular product did

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43920: Specifying the Albany AMT font when creating SAS/GRAPH output can cause SAS to fail

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:09:22 EST
There is a hot fix for this problem.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43228: SAS Merchandise Data Integration Hierarchy load does not update Product Attributes when the \"rsm_load_enabled\" flag is set to Yes

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:24:11 EST
Problem description: The hierarchy load does not update the maxdata.lv10merch table with new attribute values provided in the product load input file (merch_10_input.txt) when RSM_LOAD_ENABLED is set to ';Y';. E

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45598: Forecast override not honored in aggregation

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:02:22 EST
In SAS ® Promotion Optimization, you might notice that the forecast override is not honored in aggregation, especially if the promotion is on weekly boundaries. The forecast override is only applied to the d

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45510: Projects run via the Scheduler task might execute twice in SAS Enterprise Guide

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:34:02 EST
Any project run via the Scheduler might execute twice even though the project runs correctly interactively. To circumvent the problem, remove SAS Enterprise Guide and then reinstall.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45511: Prompt value might not resolve correctly in the Output Name field in the Query Builder or other tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:35:24 EST
In the Query Builder task, if you specify only a prompt name for the table portion of the Output Name field, then the result data set will be generated but will not display in the process flow. SAS Enterprise Guide

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 43636: Initialization of DS2 hash package more than once might cause an Access Violation

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:35:58 EST
Hash packages in DS2 should be initialized only once. If a hash package is initialized more than once, an Access Violation might occur, and diagnostic messages such as the following might be generated. W

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45580: Scheduled project might not run after any change to the Schedule task in SAS Enterprise Guide

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:45:06 EST
A scheduled project might not run after any change, such as the scheduled time, has been made to the scheduled task of SAS Enterprise Guide. Currently, the only circumvention is to delete the Schedules folder fro

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45491: \"Error: Insufficient memory\" might appear when very large sets are crossjoined and the maximum number of members is exceeded

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:51:08 EST
When large sets are crossjoined together in such a way that the maximum number of members is larger than 2,147,483,647, following error might appear:
Error: Insufficient memory <

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45426: Importing a Microsoft Excel 2007 binary file (XLSB) into SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 might cause an OLE DB error

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:06:53 EST
When importing a Microsoft 2007 binary file (XLSB) into SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1, the following error might appear:
A problem was encountered while attempting to use OLE DB to read data

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45516: Using a data set name containing Japanese characters in the SAS Enterprise Guide Query Builder results in an error

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:07:08 EST
Beginning with version 5.1, SAS Enterprise Guide initializes the SAS Workspace server with the VALIDMEMNAME=extend option and supports non-standard table names in most places within its interface. One exception is the Quer

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 20294: The METALIB procedure assigns an incorrect member type for views

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:33:38 EST
If you use PROC METALIB to import SAS ® Metadata for a SAS ® view, the procedure incorrectly assigns a value of DATA to the MemberType attribute. The value of MemberType should be VIE

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45587: Viewing a large HTML file created with ODS Graphics might cause Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 to terminate abnormally

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:51:29 EST
Viewing a large HTML file created with ODS Graphics might cause Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 to terminate abnormally.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45233: Error occurs when viewing Precode and Postcode properties for POPULATE_CONFIG_ADD_ON and other ETL jobs

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:31:17 EST
When you use SAS ® Data Integration Studio to view the Precode and Postcode properties for SAS ® Credit Risk Management for Banking jobs, you might encounter an error message

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45589: An index might be ignored in BY processing after importing the indexed data set from transport format from another operating system

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:56:48 EST
When you use PROC CIMPORT to import a transport file created on another operating system and the file contains an indexed data set, the index might be ignored in subsequent processing. This can generate an error and stop SAS from further processing.

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 35227: HTML output from package-based stored processes is returned in EBCDIC on Z/OS servers

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:58:43 EST
If you create package-based output on a z/OS stored process server, the results are by default returned in EBCDIC and might therefore be unreadable. imgsrc="{fusion_35227_2_egebcdicoutput.jpg}" alt="image label"><

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 38392: SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office deletes an entire table when the results of a stored process are refreshed

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:52:16 EST
When you refresh a stored process in SAS Add-In For Microsoft Office, the resulting output might be incorrect. If the results are contained within a table and a different format of output is returned (for example, from a g

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45416: An MP CONNECT signon failure might occur intermittently on Windows Server 2003

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:47:54 EST
On Windows Server 2003 platforms, Multi-Processing (MP) CONNECT sign-ons might fail intermittently because of the way that TCP/IP ephemeral ports are handled. The client error messages do not contain much diagnostic inf

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 45307: The traditional Chinese version of SAS Data Integration Studio displays simplified Chinese in the menu

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:15:50 EST
The traditional Chinese version of SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2 is not completely translated to traditional Chinese. English is, by default, the language used for the interface. However, simplified Chinese appears in so

Problem Notes for SAS®9 - 34434: SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata does not support LDAP authentication with the FastExport Utility

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:20:06 EST
LDAP authentication is not currently supported in combination with the FastExport utility.