Problem Note 17877: Special character(s) in password might cause Metadata Libname Engine to
fail with "ERROR: IOM call failed"
An attempt to assign a Meta Libname Engine (MLE) that requires
credentials, might fail if the password for the library contains a
special character such as an ampersand.
The LIBNAME statement will fail with the following:
ERROR: IOM call failed
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
Currently, the only circumvention is to change the password to a string
that does not contain the ampersand.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | SAS Metadata Server | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
*
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 ==> LIBNAME Engines
|
| Date Modified: | 2006-06-14 16:01:59 |
| Date Created: | 2006-06-14 16:01:59 |
