Problem Note 34730: Webcrawling using %TMFILTER returns the message "Unable to sample external file, no data in first 5 records"
In SAS® Enterprise Miner™ and SAS® Text Miner, using the %TMFILTER macro to perform webcrawling might return the following message in the log:
Unable to sample external file, no data in first 5 records
The output from the macro will contain only the URL that is specified in the macro call. The depth value is ignored.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | SAS Text Miner | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 3.2 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 3.2 | |
| SAS System | SAS Enterprise Miner | z/OS | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.3 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.3 | |
| Windows Vista | 5.3 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.3 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 5.3 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 5.3 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 5.3 | |
| Linux | 5.3 | |
| Linux on Itanium | 5.3 | |
| Solaris for x64 | 5.3 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 5.3 | |
*
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.
When using the %TMFILTER macro for webcrawling, you might receive an "Unable to sample external file, no data in first 5 records" message in the log.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2009-04-17 10:49:59 |
| Date Created: | 2009-02-06 16:00:18 |
