Problem Note 7171: Olap reports may fail when using user-defined display formats and no
informats
Beginning in SAS Release 8.1, the ability to use display formats in your
Olap reporting was implemented so formats could be specified in the
registered metadata and applied to the class values at run time. The
format can be specified in the metadata by updating the VARFMT column
attribute in the Columns Window of the Metabase facility. It is
recommended that an informat is also specified in the VARINFMT
attribute, but if it is omitted, the data model will programatically
create one based on the format specified in the VARFMT.
If a large number of informats need to be generated by the data model,
at some point the informat names may be truncated and no longer valid,
and you could receive an error such as:
ERROR: The format name @$I13210 ends in a number, which is invalid.
Because an error is generated, the data may not be able to be correctly
retrieved and the resulting report may not display.
To circumvent, specify an informat via the VARINFMT column attribute
whenever you modify the VARFMT attribute to apply a display format.
A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 TSLEVEL TS2M0 for this
issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#007171
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/EIS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| IRIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| OS/2 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Linux | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| CMS | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
| AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 TS M0 |
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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.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2002-04-23 10:04:43 |
| Date Created: | 2002-03-25 09:48:23 |
