39093 - A child Pareto analysis fails with the message "WHERE clause operator requires compatible variables"

Problem Note 39093: A child Pareto analysis fails with the message "WHERE clause operator requires compatible variables"

A child Pareto analysis might fail under the following circumstances:

You use a reporting variable that is defined as a character variable in the parmsl.variables file.
The exposure type is set to the value usage.

The error that appears in the log is as follows:

ERROR: WHERE clause operator requires compatible variables.

The problem is a result of a syntax error in a macro.

No workaround is possible.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Warranty Analysis Server	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3
		64-bit Enabled AIX	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3
		HP-UX IPF	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3
		Linux for x64	4.2	4.3	9.2 TS2M2	9.2 TS2M3

* 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 SAS Warranty Analysis 4.2_M1 is available at:

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2010-11-15 10:57:35
Date Created:	2010-03-19 14:24:36