Problem Note 41747: Various errors are received when executing a SAS Stored Process if one or more Shared parameter prompts cannot be found
When executing a SAS® Stored Process, an error message will be received if the SAS Stored Process definition contains a Shared parameter prompt that is not found in the SAS® Metadata Repository.
If the SAS Stored Process containing the missing shared prompt is executed from SAS® Enterprise Guide®, the error is:
This parameter cannot be null: prompt.
If the SAS Stored Process is requested from a SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office client, the SAS Stored Process will not load and the following error is received:
The stored process "<StoredProcessName>" was not found in the repository.
Verify that the stored process still exists, and you have permission to
execute it.
If the SAS Stored Process is executed from a SAS Web application (such as the SAS® Information Delivery Portal or Stored Process Web Application), a java.lang.NullPointerException error is received in the browser and the Web server log will include an error similar to this:
com.sas.prompts.definitions.shared.SharedTextDefinition -
com.sas.services.ServiceException: Could not find the
definition named: <SharedPromptName>
To avoid the problem, you must ensure that the Shared prompt has not been moved or deleted from its original folder location in SAS metadata and that the connecting user has ReadMetadata access to the Shared prompt and its parent folders in SAS® Management Console.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS Integration Technologies | z/OS | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
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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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Query and Reporting
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| Date Modified: | 2010-12-09 14:30:58 |
| Date Created: | 2010-12-03 12:57:06 |
