Problem Note 46405: META libname engine no longer reports column length inconsistencies when it should
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If you attempt to reference a table using a libref defined with the META engine, and the length defined for a column in the SAS® Metadata Repository does not match the length of the column in the physical data set, you should receive the following error:
ERROR: Incorrect length in SAS Metadata Repository for column column_name.
However, if you have installed hot fix B25123, the engine fails to report this error under these conditions. This can cause behavioral inconsistencies in the client applications that expect the metadata column attributes to match the physical column attributes.
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 | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows Vista | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Linux | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Linux for x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.21_M2 | 9.2 TS2M2 | ||||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#46405
After applying hot fix B25123, the META libname engine fails to produce an error when the length of a variable in metadata does not match the length defined in the physical table.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> Metadata Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> SAS Data Sets/Tables Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> SAS Libraries |
| Date Modified: | 2012-05-07 09:07:19 |
| Date Created: | 2012-04-25 09:03:17 |