Problem Note 36481: Long user-defined formats in PROC REPORT code might cause SAS to abend or crash in an ODS Markup destination
SAS might crash or abend when a long user-defined format of greater than 300 characters is applied to a PROC REPORT variable, and the output is routed to an ODS Markup destination.
The problem will occur with ODS destinations such as HTML, CSV, XML, TAGSETS.EXCELXP, TAGSETS.MSOFFICE2K, and any other tagset generated.
If the destination is ODS HTML, then ODS HTML3 can be used as a workaround. There is not a workaround for the other ODS Markup destinations.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.2 TS2M2 |
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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.
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21 is available. However, if you install SAS Maintenance after applying this hot fix, files delivered in the hot fix will not receive the proper Maintenance update. Please contact SAS Technical Support at the link shown below for information on accessing the hot fix.
http://support.sas.com/techsup/contact/index.html
When a long user-defined format of greater than 300 characters is applied to a PROC REPORT variable and the output is routed to an ODS Markup destination, SAS might crash or abend.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2009-10-11 17:53:00 |
| Date Created: | 2009-07-09 09:45:44 |
