Problem Note 64830: You are unable to save Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) subject information in SAS® Anti-Money Laundering if a subject ID number contains asterisks
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When you populate the section 18 Form of identification for subject in a SAR, you receive the following error message if you enter an ID number that includes asterisks (such as a driver's license ID number for a resident of Washington State):
This field must contain no special characters.
However, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) considers asterisks to be valid characters for identification numbers.
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 | SAS Anti-Money Laundering | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 7.1 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 7.1 | |||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 7.1 | |||||
| Linux for x64 | 7.1 | |||||
A fix for this issue for SAS Compliance Solutions 7.1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/A5T.html#64830
The error message "This field must contain no special characters" appears when you include asterisks in the "ID Number" field.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2019-10-14 15:56:01 |
| Date Created: | 2019-09-25 15:38:08 |