If a transaction name contains a dot (.) character in SAS Anti-Money Laundering, you might see an error similar to the following:

In addition to this error, the transaction is not displayed.

The same behavior can be encountered for customers or accounts.

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

After you apply the hot fix, you need to perform the steps that are shown below.

Warning: If you do not have transaction names that contain dot (.) characters, SAS Technical Support recommends that you skip these manual steps. Otherwise, implementing these steps can cause a failure in customized code that depends on URLs with file extensions such as XML and JSON.

Steps

1. Open the mvc-servlet.xml file that resides in the SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\WebAppServer\SASServer8_1\sas_webapps\sas.financialservices.aml.war\WEB-INF\spring-config\​​​​​​ directory.
2. Remove the comment delimiters around the following element to make it visible:
   <bean class="com.sas.aml.spring.MvcConfigurationDisableSuffixPattern">
   </bean>
3. Restart SASServer8.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Compliance Solutions 7.1 is available at: