The following changes were applied to Suspicious Activity Reports in SAS Anti-Money Laundering to reflect the changes defined in the FinCEN SAR XML Schema User Guide: 

• The length of the OccupationBusinessText field has been increased from a character limit of 30 to 50.
• A new error code F60 (the namespace prefix for the element is invalid), which replaces error code A17, has been applied.
• ​​​​​​​The IndividualBirthDateText field is now allowed to have "00" for the month and/or day portion of the date of birth when the month and/or day of birth is unknown but the birth year is known.

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

An update for this issue is available for SAS Compliance Solutions 8.3. For instructions on how to access and apply these software updates, see the documentation links at the top of