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Problem Note 64830: You are unable to save Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) subject information in SAS® Anti-Money Laundering if a subject ID number contains asterisks
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When you populate the section 18 Form of identification for subject in a SAR, you receive the following error message if you enter an ID number that includes asterisks (such as a driver's license ID number for a resident of Washington State):
This field must contain no special characters.
However, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) considers asterisks to be valid characters for identification numbers.
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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 | |||||