Problem Note 37410: Style names created with PROC TEMPLATE are limited to 32 characters
PROC TEMPLATE allows you to create styles with names greater than 32 characters in length. However, attempting to use a style whose name is longer than 32 characters generates a warning message that the style cannot be found. Only the first 32 characters are currently honored.
There is currently no circumvention for this problem.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OS/2 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| IRIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
*
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.
Style names created with PROC TEMPLATE are limited to 32 characters.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2010-02-03 11:21:12 |
| Date Created: | 2009-10-09 10:05:52 |
