Understanding Error Codes

Errors generally fall into one of five categories, and are assigned the appropriate error code for that category. The following table describes these error codes:

Error Codes
Error Code	Description
1000	Specifies an invalid user name or password (the client application might want to re-prompt the user for credentials).
2000	Specifies a client error (the client application might want to pass in different parameters). This error might occur for one of the following reasons: invalid prompt value required parameter is missing invalid request against schema invalid stored process name (for XMLA web services only) no ReadMetadata permission for the stored process
3000	Specifies a SAS error. This error is generated when the stored process generates a SYSCC macro variable that is not listed in the AcceptableSysccList configuration option. An additional attribute is added to indicate the actual error number that SYSCC was set to. The SYSMSG string is also included in the message.
4000	Specifies a configuration error. This indicates a problem that the administrator of the service should be notified about. The administrator should be able to examine logs on the service to determine the cause of this error. This error might occur for one of the following reasons: invalid default credentials for the anonymous user invalid trusted credentials metadata server or stored process server is unreachable invalid configuration file
5000	Specifies a time-out error. This error occurs if the user configures SAS BI Web Services with a stored process time-out and the execution of a stored process exceeds this time-out.

Note: Prior to SAS 9.2, XMLA returned an error code of 99 for almost all errors.

The following code is an example of a generated SOAP fault that has an error code of 4000:

<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
   <faultcode>Server</faultcode>
   <faultstring>The XML for Analysis provider encountered an error</faultstring>
   <faultactor>XML for Analysis Provider>XML for Analysis Provider</faultactor>
   <detail>
      <sas:Fault code="4000">
         <sas:Exception message="The configured credentials are invalid.">
            <sas:Exception message="The config file contains invalid metadata
      credentials."/>
            <sas:Exception message="The user 'anon' is unknown.">
               <sas:Exception message="'anon' is not defined in metadata."/>
            </sas:Exception>
         </sas:Exception>
      </sas:Fault>
   </detail>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>