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Problem Note 19665: Numeric formats should be set to BEST32. to ensure that long surrogate keys are handled properly in SAS® Anti-Money Laundering 2.1

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Numeric formats should be set to BEST32. to ensure that long surrogate
keys are handled properly in SAS Anti-Money Laundering 2.1. The numeric
formats 8., BEST8., and BEST. were previously used to generate surrogate
key, which means that code will limit the key values to 8 digits or
fewer. For large financial institutions, keys can be greater then 8
digits. This limitation is a problem because truncation will occur.

The impact will be on any application (for example, the Scenario
Administrator) that uses the FSK_SEQUENCE table to obtain a surrogate
key value.


Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS Anti-Money Laundering Alert Generation ServerMicrosoft Windows XP Professional2.1
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation2.1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server2.1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server2.1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server2.1
Linux2.1
Solaris2.1
64-bit Enabled Solaris2.1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional2.1
64-bit Enabled AIX2.1
AIX2.1
* 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.