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SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 36575: New XML tags available for omaconfig.xml to analyze and repair damaged SAS Metadata Repositories

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:58
There are two new tags that can be added to the omaconfig.xml file for the SAS ® Metadata Server. The first, &ltDEBUG ANALYZE_METADATA_FILES=";y";/&gt , allows you to analyz

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38858: Managing personal folders for users who are deleted from metadata in SAS 9.2

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:22
SAS Intelligence Platform clients use a hierarchy of SAS folders to store metadata. The hierarchy includes a personal folder that is created for each individual user. Note: For more information, see

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38877: Breadcrumb trail of a drilled category is moved to applied filters when the category is not visible in the SAS Web Report Studio report

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:39
In an OLAP-based report, drilled categories that are visible in the report are displayed in the breadcrumb trail above the table or graph. Categories that are not visible in the report are represented in the applied filter

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38875: \"Unable to edit or save item\" in SAS BI Dashboard when saving a change to the size of a dashboard

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:25
In SAS BI Dashboard, you might receive the following error message when you attempt to save changes to the height or width of the dashboard: Unable

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38872: Using the SECURITY_SUBSET=YES option and the impact on parent and visual totals

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:17
SAS size="-1">® 9.2 provides a new feature called Security Subsets. This feature is enabled in your OLAP cube by building the cube with the SECURITY_SUBSET=YES option in your OLAP procedure cod

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38874: Special characters used in a text-based conditional highlighting rule might not display correctly in SAS Web Report Studio

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:00
When used in a text-based conditional highlighting rule, some special characters, such as > and <, might not display correctly. For example, if your conditional highlighting rule inserts the text string "Total

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 32718: Bulk loading support has been added to SAS/ACCESS Interface to HP Neoview

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 14:38
SAS/ACCESS Interface to HP Neoview (SAS 9.1.3) has been enhanced to include the BULKLOAD= option.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38850: java.security.AccessControlException received when attempting to update a BI Dashboard indicator

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:57
When attempting to update a SAS BI Dashboard indicator, you might receive the following error: ----------------------------------------------

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38834: SAS Enterprise Guide inserts quotation marks around formatted numeric values during export to a text file

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:32
SAS Enterprise Guide inserts quotation marks around formatted numeric values when the values are exported to a delimited text file. This behavior is a change from SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1, which did not insert the

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 22486: My SAS jobs keep failing with an \"out of memory\" error. How can I resolve this problem?

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 14:10
Usually an 'out of memory' message means the SAS procedure needed more system memory, but there was not enough memory available to run the job. The amount of memory a SAS job can consume is limited by the MEM

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38948: Results are returned from a SAS Information Map opened in SAS Enterprise Guide even though an authorization error appears

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 10:04
Even if you do not have physical access to a table that is being used as a data source for an information map, you might still see results when opening the information map in SAS Enterprise Guide. Specifically, if server-

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38323: Support for Platform Suite for SAS (Platform LSF version 7) is required with SAS Marketing Automation 5.1

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 08:02
SAS Marketing Automation 5.1 is supported to work with Platform Suite for SAS (Platform LSF version 6.2). Support that enables SAS Marketing Automation 5.1 to work with Platform Suite for SAS (Platform LSF version 7) is

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38772: Reference lines might not line up as expected on a line graph in SAS Web Report Studio

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 15:09
When adding reference lines on a line graph in SAS Web Report Studio, the reference line might not display as expected. This problem is most likely to occur if the data item that is assigned to Line Height has been f

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38756: Using the SECURITY_SUBSET feature of SAS OLAP Server

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:24
SAS size="-1">® 9.2 provides a new feature called Security Subsets. This feature is enabled in your OLAP cube by building the cube with the SECURITY_SUBSET=YES option in your OLAP procedure code,

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38755: DATAPATH and INDEXPATH locations are randomly selected for aggregation files

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:18
With SAS size="-1">® 9.2, the first location for an aggregation file or index is randomly selected from the INDEXPATH and DATAPATH options. This means that the distribution of the files wil

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38202: Valid operators for filtered lookup fields in the Merchandise and Location Filter windows of SAS Merchandise Planning

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 09:00
This note explains which operators work for filtered lookup fields in the Merchandise or Location Filter windows.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38857: SAS Stored Process error: The connection factory requires an identity for the authentication domain

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 14:08
When executing a SAS Stored Process, the client user must have a login user account that uses the same Authentication Domain as the SAS Stored Process Server.As an example,if the SAS Stored Process Server has an Authentication Domain called UnixAut

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38125: SAS Forecast Studio batch program execution might fail with a truncated record warning

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 13:43
The execution of a SAS Forecast Studio batch program might fail with a "WARNING: Truncated record" message. The warning occurs because the generated SAS program source line is greater than the system limit.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 37412: Errors occur when you import Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access files into SAS 9.2

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:22
The following errors can occur when you import Excel or Access files into SAS 9.2 or later: "Error: Connect: Class not registered" and "Error: Error in the Libname statement".

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 30753: Fixes that are required for SAS IT Resource Management 3.1.1 to function properly

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 13:37
This SAS Note is updated regularly with the current list of appropriate hot fixes that must be applied for SAS IT Resource Management release 3.1.1 to function properly.