Problem Note 3389: FILENAME function used with %SYSFUNC truncates macro variable names
to 8 characters
When using the FILENAME function with %SYSFUNC and long macro variable
names, you may get incorrect results from other functions when
referencing the fileref that was assigned with the FILENAME function.
The macro variable name passed with the FILENAME function is truncated
to 8 characters.
The circumvention is to use macro variable names that are 8 bytes or
less when using the FILENAME function with %SYSFUNC.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OS/2 | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| CMS | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
| AIX | 8 TS M0 | 8.2 TS2M0 |
*
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: | medium |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Functions
|
| Date Modified: | 2000-09-11 12:33:15 |
| Date Created: | 2000-09-08 09:39:58 |
