In a SAS^® solution such as SAS^® Model Risk Management or SAS^® Enterprise GRC, you might not be able to transition a business object from one workflow state to another. When you edit a business object and click a button to move the object to the next workflow activity, the workflow state might not change. For example, you might see the problem in SAS Model Risk Management when you edit a model review and click Submit to submit the object for review.

This issue might be caused by a deadlock when SAS Workflow Services attempts to remove a timer. When this type of deadlock occurs, the SASWorkflowServices9.4 log file contains the following error:

You might also see the following error in the SAS Model Risk Management or SAS Enterprise GRC log file:

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

After installing the hot fix, perform the following steps:

1. Edit the SAS-configuration-directory/Levn/Web/WebAppServer/SASServer1_1/sas_webapps/sas.workflow.war/WEB-INF/quartz-properties.xml file, and make the following change:

Find the following line:

Change it to the following to comment it out:

2. Restart SASServer1_1.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Middle Tier 9.4_M3 is available at: