Problem Note 54633: A warning message about invalid characters is written to your SAS® log when you use the IMAGENAME= option in an ODS GRAPHICS statement
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The following warning message might be written to the SAS log when you use the IMAGENAME= option in an ODS GRAPHICS statement with a SAS® session configured for UTF8 encoding:
WARNING: The IMAGENAME option or the output name contains invalid characters.
Despite the warning message, the resulting graph output file is written to disk with the correct filename.
There is currently no circumvention for this problem.
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 | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.4 TS1M1 | |||
| Z64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| z/OS | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M1 | 9.4 TS1M3 | ||
A fix for this issue for Threaded Kernel National Language Support 9.4_M2 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/S42.html#54633
Use of the IMAGENAME= option in an ODS GRAPHICS statement with UTF8 encoding writes a warning message to the SAS log stating that the IMAGENAME= option contains invalid characters.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2014-11-25 10:53:21 |
| Date Created: | 2014-11-14 14:54:23 |