Problem Note 33061: VALIDVARNAME=UPCASE option generates error when deleting composite index with PROC DATASETS
The following error message will be generated when trying to delete a composite index with PROC DATASETS when the index is created in lower case and the VALIDVARNAME=UPCASE option is specified:
ERROR: Bad key chain for complex index named abc.
To circumvent the problem, specify the VALIDVARNAME=ANY system option.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
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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.
If the name of a composite index is in lower case when the VALIDVARNAME= option is set to UPCASE, an error will be generated when trying to delete the index with PROC DATASETS.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2008-08-27 11:30:40 |
| Date Created: | 2008-08-26 10:14:56 |
