64000 - SAS® Visual Analytics geo maps based on custom polygon providers display "Unable to retrieve region geometries" and "Data type mismatch detected"

Problem Note 64000: SAS® Visual Analytics geo maps based on custom polygon providers display "Unable to retrieve region geometries" and "Data type mismatch detected"

Geo maps based on custom polygon providers do not render in SAS Visual Analytics when geography names include special characters such as single quotation marks. For example, SAS Visual Analytics cannot correctly process a custom region named L'AQUILA. You see an error that is similar to this display:

When this problem occurs, the sas-maps and sas-report-data logs contain parsing errors that are similar to this example from the sas-maps log:

2019-04-11 12:45:03.462  WARN 31911 --- [o-auto-1-exec-9] com.sas.maps.MapsService : sasdemo(7f63d1c)

[0d284bbdfeab4423] Error processing map regions request - Error Code: 15306 -

Error parsing report - query:977af032-441e-b09a-814173fe342d_b666-87f1-4067-b6a0-a3fdc7f4a

As a workaround, create the geographic data item based on the data item name but associate the geographic data item with the Region ID in the custom polygon provider.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note for a link to instructions about accessing and applying the software update.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	Product Release		SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS Visual Analytics	Linux for x64	8.2	8.4	Viya	Viya
SAS System	SAS Report Viewer	Linux for x64	8.2	8.4	Viya	Viya

* 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.

An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.4. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.4 for Linux Deployment Guide at

http://documentation.sas.com/?softwareId=administration&softwareVersion=3.4&softwareContextId=softwareUpdates

http://documentation.sas.com/?softwareId=administration&softwareVersion=3.4&softwareContextId=softwareUpdatesWin

Geo maps based on custom polygon providers display "Unable to retrieve region geometries: Error processing map regions request: Data type mismatch detected." This problem occurs when geography names include special characters such as single quotation marks.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	high

Date Modified:	2019-04-29 15:06:47
Date Created:	2019-04-08 15:40:30

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Problem Note 64000: SAS® Visual Analytics geo maps based on custom polygon providers display "Unable to retrieve region geometries" and "Data type mismatch detected"

Operating System and Release Information