Problem Note 53552: SAS® Real-Time Decision Manager might incorrectly return "DS2 data type XXXX is not supported for use in a DS2 Activity method"
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When you enter DS2 code into SAS® Customer Intelligence Studio, you can enter more than one package per SAS activity. However, only the last package is associated with the SAS Real-Time Decision Manager activity that you create. The other packages are compiled, but their methods are not checked for the use of variable types that are not allowed in activity signatures. The intended functionality is that you can use the disallowed variable types, such as HASH, in these other packages.
In some releases of SAS Real-Time Decision Manager, all of the packages in your activity code are checked despite this intended functionality. The example below uses a variable of type HASH in the method signature for the first package, but the last package includes only allowed variable types:
package TypesTest_util /overwrite=yes;
method foo(package hash h);
h.clear();
end;
method do(varchar(50) s, in_out int i);
i = 0;
end;
endpackage;
run;
package TypesTest /overwrite=yes;
declare package TypesTest_util util();
method execute(varchar(50) s, in_out int i);
util.do(s, i);
end;
endpackage;
run;When you run this code, you get an error similar to the one below:
2013-11-11 17:28:27,331 ERROR a1a8761d15cd81f3:-69151c9a:142469a1b3a:2bcb SASDSDesignRepository com.sas.rtdm.designserver.implementation.DesignServerWebserviceFactory - Converting SAS Decision Services design server exception to fault. com.sas.analytics.ph.RTDMException: DS2 data type PACKAGE hash is not supported for use in a DS2 Activity method. at com.sas.analytics.ph.common.exp.DS2.DS2ActivityReader.mapDataType(DS2ActivityRea der.java:129) at com.sas.analytics.ph.common.exp.DS2.DS2ActivityReader.readParameter(DS2ActivityR eader.java:73) at com.sas.analytics.ph.common.exp.DS2.DS2ActivityReader.readMethod(DS2ActivityRead er.java:44) at com.sas.analytics.ph.common.exp.DS2.DS2ActivityReader.read(DS2ActivityReader.jav a:30) at com.sas.rtdm.implementation.activity.sasactivity.SASActivityGenerator.generateAc tivity(SASActivityGenerator.java:24) at com.sas.rtdm.designserver.implementation.DesignServerInternalImpl.generateActivi tyFromDS2(DesignServerInternalImpl.java:818) at com.sas.rtdm.designserver.implementation.TranslatingDesignServerImpl.generateAct ivityFromDS2(TranslatingDesignServerImpl.java:383)
In order to work around this problem, create your DS2 utility packages outside of SAS Real-Time Decision Manager.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Real-Time Decision Manager | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Linux for x64 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Windows Vista | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| SAS System | SAS Decision Services | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.6 | 6.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 5.6 | 6.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 5.6 | 6.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | |||
| Linux for x64 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 9.4 TS1M0 | |||