Issues Addressed in SAS 9.3 (TS1M1)
Updated:Mar 19, 2013

SAS 9.3 Maintenance Releases are cumulative. The "Introduced" column indicates the SAS 9.3 Maintenance Release in which the issue was first addressed.

 

  Base SAS

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
49146 Using the SASFILE statement for large data sets may produce an error
,  64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  Aster Data nCluster on Linux x64,  DB2 Universal Database on AIX,  DB2 Universal Database on Linux x64,  Greenplum on Linux x64,  HP-UX IPF ,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Netezza TwinFin 32-bit SMP Hosts,  Netezza TwinFin 32bit blade,  Netezza TwinFin 64-bit S-Blades,  Netezza TwinFin 64-bit SMP Hosts,  Solaris for x64,   Teradata on Linux,  z/OS 		TS1M1
47267 The METALIB procedure might end abnormally when you use it to update tables in a library that contain a SAS ® Data Integration Studio work table
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
46622 The GROUPDISPLAY=CLUSTER option might be ignored in some plot statements in the ODS Graph Template Language (GTL)
,  64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  Aster Data nCluster on Linux x64,  DB2 Universal Database on AIX,  DB2 Universal Database on Linux x64,  Greenplum on Linux x64,  HP-UX IPF ,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Netezza TwinFin 32-bit SMP Hosts,  Netezza TwinFin 32bit blade,  Netezza TwinFin 64-bit S-Blades,  Netezza TwinFin 64-bit SMP Hosts,  Solaris for x64,   Teradata on Linux,  z/OS 		TS1M1
46520 Invalid format of DATE13. generated by EFI, PROC IMPORT, and IMPORT WIZARD
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
45807 The SAS ® option SASHELP takes precedence over the SASHELP data definition (DD) statement in the RENEW job
z/OS 		TS1M1
45705 Optimizer might "fail to respond " because of floating point error
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
45523 The "Install Post Processing " step of the SAS ® 9.3 installation process fails
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
45227 Invalid format of DATE18. generated by EFI, PROC IMPORT and IMPORT WIZARD
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
44943 The SAS/SECURE Toolkit Libraries from RSA(R) might fail to install during the installation of SAS ® 9.3 on the Windows operating system
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
44800 An incorrect HTML page might be displayed when a bar is selected in a stacked bar chart created with the Graph Template Language (GTL)
,  64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44688 An INPUT() function used in PROC SQL might return incorrect results
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44634 SAS ® library damage can occur if memory has been exhausted
z/OS 		TS1M1
44601 ERROR: DDE syntax error in physical name occurs in DDE clipboard and Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
44460 An SGE file cannot be opened with a DBCS version of SAS ® 9.3 in the Windows operating environment
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
44256 In SAS ® 9.3, setting MEMSIZE system option to values of 0 or MAX results in a value of 2G
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
44190 Unicode server performance is degraded when character literals in a WHERE clause are not passed to a database correctly
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
43982 Potential security vulnerability on Linux systems in SAS ® 9.3
Linux,  Linux for x64 		TS1M1
43897 Informats and formats might be retained across columns when added using the XML Mapper
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
43854 ARM4 "Segmentation Violation " error
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS Alpha,  Tru64 UNIX,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43848 The FORMCHAR= setting in the configuration file is incorrect for some National Language Support languages in SAS ® 9.3
,  64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43828 The error "Expecting a variable name after %LET " occurs in SAS ® 9.3
,  64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43370 PIBw.d informat reads valid value as zero on z/OS
z/OS 		TS1M1
43337 B8601DT, B8601DA, B8601TM, and B8601DZ informats produce incorrect results
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS Alpha,  Tru64 UNIX,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43262 Queries that reference tables in libraries that are assigned using the META libname engine might perform poorly
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43223 When uninstalling SAS ® 9.3, the process might fail on English editions of Base SAS ® software
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
41772 A "Write Access Violation " error might be issued when using the XML92 LIBNAME engine with the SQL procedure
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1

 

  SAS BI Dashboard

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
45876 SAS ® BI Dashboard EventGen Web application might return a 404 error
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43879 SAS ® 9.3 Migration Utility content is written to the 9.2 configuration directory when you migrate SAS ® BI Dashboard 4.2 to 4.31
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS BI Portlets

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
41771 Multiple requests to load the page might prevent a SAS Collection Portlet from displaying in SAS ® Information Delivery Portal
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Data Integration Studio

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
48511 The Column reference property setting for Group By columns in the Extract transformation is set to the default value Name when migrated or promoted
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
48510 Business keys in the SCD Type 2 Loader transformation are missing after you migrate or promote jobs from SAS ® Data Integration Studio 3.4
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
48472 The message "Error in the LIBNAME statement " appears in SAS ® Data Integration Studio jobs that use the SCD Type 2 Loader transformation
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
45996 The SPD Server Table Loader transformation ignores the "Alternative library for temporary tables " option for target tables
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
45939 The error "BY variables are not properly sorted on data set LIBREF.TARGETTABLE " occurs in an SCD Type 2 Loader transformation
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
45831 The Model Universal Unique Identifier value is not shown in the Mining Results transformation properties in SAS ® Data Integration Studio
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
44889 Simple tasks execute slowly in SAS ® Data Integration Studio
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
43115 The Build Expression button is missing from the Filter tab in SAS ® Data Integration Studio
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Enterprise Miner Mid-Tier

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
47050 A JNLParseException occurs when launching a SAS ® Enterprise Miner(tm) Java Web Start client using JBoss5.1.* AS on a Japanese machine
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
43709 Models might not register in SAS ® Content Server, a label syntax is incorrect message appears in the log
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Information Delivery Portal

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44218 SAS ® Information Delivery Portal promotion tools cannot remove a permission tree when the name of the user or group contains non-ASCII characters
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44217 SAS ® Information Delivery Portal promotion import step fails in non-English locales
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Integration Technologies

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
45621 A null-pointer exception occurs in the Web application server 's log when two stored-process threads run simultaneously as the anonymous user
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44804 Using a SAS ® Stored Process dynamic prompt might cause performance problems for the SAS Pooled Workspace Server
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43829 The SAS ® 9.3 Stored Process Server becomes unresponsive in some conditions
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43541 The SAS ® 9.2 Stored Process Server becomes unresponsive in some conditions
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Integration Technologies Client

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
43521 DataFlux ® Data Management Studio might close unexpectedly
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Management Console

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44265 Editing the Time Event dialog box for a flow in the SAS ® Management Console Schedule Manager might cause all jobs and events to disappear
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Metadata Server

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44590 A memory leak exists in the SAS ® Metadata Server
z/OS 		TS1M1
43656 Error SAS ® Metadata Server migration failed occurs during configuration of the SAS Metadata Server
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
42915 Issuing a "Register Tables " or an "Update Metadata " request from SAS ® 9.2 Management Console generates an error
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Providers for OLE DB

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44030 SAS IOM Provider supplies incorrect values for SAS data formats and informats
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Web Infrastructure Platform

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
47208 The SAS ® Information Delivery Portal cannot be accessed when you have a configuration that includes both forward and reverse proxies
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS Web Report Studio

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
47821 Measures might be incorrectly formatted in OLAP-based SAS ® Web Report Studio reports that are opened using the SAS ® Add-In for Microsoft Office
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44843 Data sources cannot be selected when running a version of SAS ® Web Report Studio that is not supported for use with your current browser
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44090 SAS ® Web Report Studio export capability enables users to export reports and export data from individual objects
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
42954 SAS ® Web Report Studio might not pass prompt values from a linked graph to a target report if the graph is not large enough to display the legend
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/ACCESS Interface to Greenplum

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44341 The "Use database 's temporary table capability " option might cause an error in SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to Greenplum
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
44333 When you use DELETE_MULT_ROWS= or UPDATE_MULT_ROWS= with SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to Greenplum, some rows are not deleted or updated
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
44329 An "invalid byte sequence " error might occur when you use bulk load with SAS/ACCESS ® Interface to Greenplum
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
43754 MySQL column lengths might be incorrect in your SAS session when you use SAS/ACCESS ® 9.2 Interface to MySQL to access MySQL data
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
42497 Using the Bulk Copy (BCP) facility to bulkload a date into a SMALLDATETIME results in the error "Invalid character value for cast specification "
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
41854 Unable to use string timestamp literals with the SQL Native Client 10.0 driver
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
42870 Data cannot be referenced in SAS code using OLE DB LIBNAME to SybaseIQ DBMS
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
47365 Columns are named incorrectly by the XLSX driver when GETNAMES=NO is specified in PROC IMPORT
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
45321 Exception and disk read errors occur when you import JMP ® 9 files into SAS ® 9.3
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
45203 A "Fail to transcode column name " error occurs when you are using the XLSX driver
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
44687 An error occurs when you use SAS PC Files Server EXCELCS and ACCESSCS drivers to import double-byte character set (DBCS) filenames
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
44147 Using the XLS driver to import .xls files on UNIX platforms might cause SAS ® to stop responding
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1
43801 Microsoft Excel data is not properly imported and an error is generated when you import .xls or .xlsx files in which font changes are used
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
48504 Incorrect data are returned when reading Teradata VARCHAR data when a remote library is present with PROC SQL pass-through code
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/CONNECT

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44185 An error occurs when you try to assign a DBMS library in the SAS ® Enterprise Guide ® library tree
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/GRAPH

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
44976 Observations might be dropped from the data set with PROC GINSIDE
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44301 Scalable vector graphics (SVG) tooltips are not displayed correctly when viewed with the Google Chrome browser
Microsoft Windows 		TS1M1
43954 PROC GINSIDE might generate incorrect results
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1

 

  SAS/STAT

Issue(s) Addressed: Introduced:
46577 The GLM procedure incorrectly creates the information that is saved by the STORE statement for some models
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
44355 The NORMALIZE option in the WEIGHT statement produces incorrect COVSANDWICH results
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS Alpha,  Tru64 UNIX,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43921 Response variable contains only zeros in OUTDESIGN= data set
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS Alpha,  Tru64 UNIX,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43826 PROC MIXED reports a bug when the number of random effects exceeds 999.
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS on HP Integrity,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43749 Incorrect or missing values in OUT= data set with full-rank coding and redundant parameters
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS Alpha,  Tru64 UNIX,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43657 Incorrect Full Log Likelihood column and Max-rescaled R-square with stratified events/trials data in PROC LOGISTIC
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux for x64,  Microsoft Windows,  Solaris for x64,  z/OS 		TS1M1
43552 Abnormal termination in PROC GLIMMIX with DIST=BINARY and options in the LSMEANS statement
64-bit Enabled AIX,  64-bit Enabled HP-UX,  64-bit Enabled Solaris,  HP-UX IPF,  Linux,  Linux on Itanium,  Microsoft Windows,  OpenVMS Alpha,  Solaris for x64,  Tru64 UNIX,  z/OS 		TS1M1