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Problem Note 40514: A SAS® Marketing Optimization scenario does not optimize with an error indicating that the length of a macro variable value exceeds the maximum length
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A scenario might fail to optimize in SAS Marketing Optimization. If this happens, you might see an error in the optimize.log that indicates that the length of the value of a macro variable exceeds the maximum length.
This problem might be caused by having more than 20,000 segments that need to be adjusted in a scenario. This is because you are reading the list of segments that need to be adjusted into a single macro variable to create a string. That string is too long to fit in a single macro variable.
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 | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Marketing Optimization | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows Vista | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 5.3_M2 | 5.4 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||