After deploying the SAS^® Email Marketing tracking servlets against a Websphere web server, the permissions in the deployed was.policy file may not be set correctly.

This causes problems when you attempt to test the redirect URL within the SAS Email Marketing Console.

From SAS Email Marketing Console, select Server Configuration from the Tools drop down menu and then choose the Tracking tab.

Click on the "test" button next to the Redir Url field.

If the following message appears,

then the permissions have not been correctly defined.

To correct the problem, locate the deployed was.policy file which will be in a location similar to:

Open the was.policy file in an editor and append the following:

// ============================================================
// Default codeBase permissions
// ============================================================
grant codeBase "file:${application}" {
permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "accessClassInPackage.sun.misc";

};

Save and close the file and then restart Websphere in order for the change to take affect.

The exception is a RuntimePermission exception generated when trying to access the password encoder/decoder in the sun.misc package. The change grants the servlet permission to call the sun.misc.* code.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS E-mail Marketing 2.1 is available at: