After you click Validate Report for a Suspicious Activity Report in XML (SARX) in SAS^® Anti-Money Laundering, you might see an “HTTP Status 500 – Internal Server Error” pop-up message.

The following message might also appear after you try to create an e-file of the report:

These errors occur when you enter the less-than (<) or greater-than (>) characters in the text fields that provide a report description or report narrative.

The workaround is to remove the < and > characters from the fields.

If you must include the < and > characters, contact SAS Technical Support for instructions about how to modify the rc_rest_get_efile_collection.sas macro program.

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	SAS Anti-Money Laundering	Microsoft® Windows® for x64	7.1
		64-bit Enabled AIX	7.1
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	7.1
		Linux for x64	7.1

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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

https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A5T.html#63081

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Validating an SARX report that contains a < or > character in the text boxes that describe the report can result in an "HTTP Status 500–Internal Server Error" message. The message "ERROR: There is an illegal character in name" also appears after you try to create an e-file of the report.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high

Date Modified:	2018-10-17 11:47:57
Date Created:	2018-10-16 16:30:08