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Problem Note 56545: Refreshing a forecast plan a third time causes the forecast to fail and the message "ERROR in forecasting" to occur in SAS® Forecast Analyst Workbench
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In SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench 5.2, if you refresh a plan three times, the plan status changes to "ERROR: in forecasting," and the following error occurs in the log:
ERROR: in forecasting MLOGIC(DDCF_OPT_HIER_DATA_SPLIT): %DO loop index variable I is now 1; loop will not iterate again. ERROR: The text expression &OUTPUT_DATA_PREV. contains a recursive reference to the macro variable OUTPUT_DATA_PREV. The macro variable will be assigned the null value.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 5.2 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows Vista | 5.2 | |||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 5.2 | |||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.2 | |||||
| Linux for x64 | 5.2 | |||||