Problem Note 47303: PROC METALIB returns meaningless text and the error "No metadata objects found matching the specified URI"
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The METALIB procedure might fail to process a renamed table. This failure occurs if you rename the table in your SAS® Metadata Repository such that the new object name contains a blank space or other non-alphanumeric character before running PROC METALIB.
The error message that is returned contains meaningless text and unprintable characters, as illustrated here:
To circumvent the problem:
- Open the table's Properties dialog box in SAS® Management Console.
- On the General tab, modify the table's name so that the metadata name matches the name of the table as it exists in the physical data source. In addition, make sure that the name does not contain any special characters.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Solaris for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Linux | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows Vista | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M3 | 9.2 TS2M3 | ||||
| z/OS | 9.21_M3 | 9.4_M5 | 9.2 TS2M3 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M4 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A3Z.html#47303
PROC METALIB returns an error containing meaningless text when the table name in metadata is altered and contains a space or other non-alphanumeric character.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> Metadata |
| Date Modified: | 2012-09-06 11:16:11 |
| Date Created: | 2012-08-23 14:41:10 |