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
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
| 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 |
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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.
This problem occurs when there are too many segments in a scenario that needs to be adjusted manually.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | alert |
| Date Modified: | 2010-08-05 15:40:36 |
| Date Created: | 2010-08-04 12:12:44 |
