SAS Merchandise Data Integration removes spaces from records during the creation of the old_merch_10_yyyy.txt file. When you use the hier_change process to reclassify parent merchandise members, a new merch10 product file with updated parentage is created. During the macro program _substitute that changes parent merchandise members, a compress function removes spaces from all character attribute fields. The parent merchandise change along with the removed spaces are present in the resulting merch10 input file called old_changed_merch_10_yyyyww.txt.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Merchandise Financial Planning	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64	6.1.3 M6
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2	6.1.3 M6	6.6		9.4 TS1M2
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64	6.1.3 M6
		64-bit Enabled AIX	6.1.3 M6	6.6		9.4 TS1M2
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	6.1.3 M6	6.6		9.4 TS1M2

* 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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The program mdi_create_merch_file.sas creates a file old_changed_merch_10_yyyyww.txt, all character fields have been stripped of spaces.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2015-03-24 08:52:27
Date Created:	2014-10-08 08:57:24