If you have configured your SAS^® Metadata Server to run with an alternate session encoding such as W3, and you execute a DATA step that uses metadata functions such as METADATA_RESOLVE or METADATA_GETNASN to retrieve objects from the metadata repository, the functions will fail to locate objects that do exist. Consequently, the resulting return codes and output parameter values are incorrect.

You can circumvent the problem by using the KCVT function to transcode the object uri in the metadata function into the corresponding session encoding format used on the metadata server.

For example, instead of this syntax...

use this syntax:

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Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Metadata Server	z/OS	9.2 TS2M0	9.2 TS2M2

* 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.

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A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21 is available at:

http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A01.html#35599

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Metadata functions like METADATA_RESOLVE and METADATA_GETNASN fail to locate existing metadata objects when run on MVS with session encoding enabled.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high
Topic:	Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> Metadata System Administration ==> Installation ==> NLS (National Language Support) System Administration ==> Servers ==> Metadata

Date Modified:	2009-09-09 12:38:49
Date Created:	2009-04-16 15:18:53