Problem Note 56611: EMAIL access method new feature support for the SENSITIVITY flag
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The EMAIL access method does not provide support for the SENSITIVITY flag in the third maintenance release for SAS® 9.4 (TS1M3) and earlier releases. The SENSITIVITY flag enables you to mark messages as CONFIDENTIAL | PRIVATE. A new feature request to make this feature available in SAS has been developed for SAS 9.4 TS1M3 as a hot fix. With the hot fix installed, SAS provides support for the email option SENSITIVITY.
You can set this email option via the FILENAME statement in the EMAIL access method or via the PUT statement in the DATA step. Both methods are detailed below.
EMAIL Access Method Option:
You can use the values SENSITIVITY='PRIVATE'|'PERSONAL'|'CONFIDENTIAL' to specify the sensitivity of the email message. To enable this option, you must enclose the value in quotation marks as shown here:
PUT Statement Email Directive:
To use the PUT statement email directive to set the email option, add the following to the DATA step:
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 | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.4_M3 | 9.4_M4 | 9.4 TS1M3 | 9.4 TS1M4 |