When using SAS® High-Performance Markdown Optimization, a failure might occur when optimizing plans that are created for low-owned departments.

While processing low-owned data during optimization, certain scenarios in low-owned data and in plan data might lead to the following errors in the tkmi.log file:

DEBUG - STDOUT: 12:58:20 c_geo_prod_owned_inv: ERROR: consumer thread 'c_geo_prod_owned_inv' encountered a fatal error
DEBUG - STDOUT: ERROR: TKTException code = 6 (Access violation)
DEBUG - STDOUT: 12:58:20 geo_prod_owned_inv  : ERROR: Assertion failed: ! this->pc_error, file /sas/wky/mva-m1tkmi43/di/src/input_adapter.c, line 660

The work-around for this issue is to enforce certain data conditions and configuration settings before running optimization, as follows:

Geo_prod_owned_inv Table

If provided at the lowest level, records in this table must only be provided for active product/locations, i.e. they must have a matching active product/location in the geo_prod table.

Corresponding records in the geo_prod table must satisfy the condition "sales_introduction_dt < sales_discontinued_dt", if sales_discontinued_dt is not missing.

Plans

Members of a plan should contain all active product/location combinations within the scope of the plan.

Configuration Setting

Set the global setting max_inmem_gps to “0” to ensure successful processing of the geo_prod_owned_inv data.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS High-Performance Markdown Optimization 4.3_M1 is available at: