Problem Note 13777: The "ERROR: There is an illegal character in the entity name" message can appear when you attempt to update metadata that contains special characters
When you try to update metadata that contains an ampersand (&) or other special character in any paths, you might encounter the following error message:
ERROR: There is an illegal character in the entity name
This problem has been encountered when any path in a promotion job contains an ampersand (&) character. If a new substitution validation is done on the promotion job, the ampersand will show up in the bottom of the PATH list with a red X mark.
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Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS Metadata Server | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M2 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M2 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | System Administration ==> Promotion
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| Date Modified: | 2008-04-23 09:32:03 |
| Date Created: | 2004-11-09 16:02:06 |
