Problem Note 50355: Communications with percent-based holdouts enabled fail and an exception occurs
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When you execute a SAS® Customer Intelligence communication, an exception occurs when a marketing cell that supplies subjects to a communication with a percentage holdout threshold has a zero count.
The following exception is reported in the browser:
[channel] Communication: There was an error in the stored process or a called macro.
Contact your administrator.
Contact your administrator.
This problem occurs only when the communication holdout size is specified as a percentage value. It does not occur when it specified as a count.
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 | SAS Customer Intelligence Studio | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 6.1 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 6.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 6.1 | |||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 6.1 | |||||
| Windows Vista | 6.1 | |||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 6.1 | |||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Linux for x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 9.4 TS1M4 | |||
A fix for this issue for SAS Marketing Automation 6.1_M1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/K78.html#50355
This problem occurs when any input cell has a zero count.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2013-07-11 08:31:16 |
| Date Created: | 2013-07-10 10:29:24 |