Problem Note 63615: The generated code in SAS® Studio interactive mode produces "ERROR 14-12: Invalid option value compact for SAS option VALIDMEMNAME"
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The generated code in SAS Studio interactive mode produces the following error in your SAS log:
ERROR 14-12: Invalid option value compact for SAS option VALIDMEMNAME.
The statement within the generated code that creates this error is as follows:
options validmemname=compact;
After the error occurs, open SAS Studio in interactive mode and ensure that the VALIDMEMNAME option has the correct value of COMPAT.
You can verify that the value is updated with the following SAS program:
proc options option=validmemname;
run;
run;
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 Studio | Linux for x64 | 3.71 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS Studio 3.8 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D8F.html#63615| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2019-02-15 16:35:39 |
| Date Created: | 2019-02-05 13:09:57 |