In Publish to SAS® Drug Development plug-in for SAS® Clinical Data Integration 2.3, a job that contains a transformation, which includes a macro variable with the following combination of characters. These including slashes, periods, and closed parenthesis does not publish to SAS® Drug Development. The job results in an error.

The period is assumed to be the path for a file. This value is truncated for the path and leaves just a slash. Publish to SAS® Drug Development incorrectly strips the slash leaving an empty folder path. The empty folder value in the macro variable causes the job to fail to export to SAS® Drug Development.

The current workaround is to remove the offending combination of characters.

Here are some examples:

1. /(a.b);
2. %let aaa=%nrbquote(/A.B)
3. (/AAAAAA.BBBBBB)
4. (/A.)
5. (/.B)
6. (/X.Y.Z)
7. (//A.B)
8. (//B.C/)
9. (/C.D)
10. ( // //D.E)
11. ( // //E.F/)

For user-written transformations, the current workaround is to turn off the option to generate automatic macro variables to avoid this problem.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Clinical Data Integration	Windows 7 Ultimate x64	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Professional x64	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Professional 32 bit	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Home Premium x64	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Enterprise x64	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit	2.3		9.3 TS1M1
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	2.3		9.3 TS1M1

* 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.

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Publish to SAS® Drug Development 2.3 - Using a slash and a period followed by closed parenthesis in a macro variable causes an error

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2013-05-21 13:18:50
Date Created:	2012-12-13 14:40:59