SAS Digital Marketing enables you to create broadcasts of e-mails that are formatted in both text and HTML. When you try to schedule a text only broadcast, SAS Digital Marketing does not schedule the broadcast and instead returns the following error:

java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:
java.rmi.RemoteException: C:\ProgramFiles\SAS\SASDigitalMarketing\5.4\content\Broadcast_grgd2xb9.html 
(The system cannot find the file specified)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Unknown Source)

If the broadcast is generated from a SAS^® Marketing Automation campaign, then SAS Marketing Automation writes the error message in its log file.

The error is generated because SAS Digital Marketing incorrectly tries to find an HTML file associated with the broadcast. The broadcast XML incorrectly contains references to both text and HTML locations, as shown below:

<table>SDMDATA.DISTLIST</table>
  <addrvar>EMAIL</addrvar>
  <subject>textfile</subject>
  <from>gandalf@sas.com</from>
  <mailfrom>gandalf@sas.com</mailfrom>
  <replyto>gandalf@sas.com</replyto>
  <textpart>file:/C:/Program
Files/SAS/SASDigitalMarketing/5.4/content/Broadcast_grgd2xb9.txt</textpart>
  <textencoding>UTF-8&lt;/textencoding>
  <htmlpart>file:///C:\Program
Files\SAS\SASDigitalMarketing\5.4\content\Broadcast_grgd2xb9.html</htmlpart>
  <htmlencoding>UTF-8</htmlencoding>
  <outboundencoding>UTF-8</outboundencoding>
  <preview_version>1</preview_version>

One potential workaround for this problem is to create the HTML file that is mentioned in the broadcast XML. This might not be appropriate for some customer e-mails.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Digital Marketing 5.4_M1 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Digital Marketing 5.41 is available at: