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SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 21089: Model and query size guidelines for SAS Financial Management 4.4

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 14:52
When creating models and queries in SAS Financial Management release 4.4, consider the following guidelines: Practical Limits of Model Size: A cycle or model should not exceed 12 dimensions.<

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 21068: Multiple query requests might take a long time to complete

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 14:25
ODCS Clustering, also referred to as Clustered Query Processors, is an optional configuration for reducing the time SAS ® Financial Management queries need to complete processing in a multi-user environment.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 40032: Tables used by SAS Information Maps must be uniquely named in a single library

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 14:08
SAS size="-1">® Management Console enables you to register the same table more than once in the same library if the table definitions are saved to different SAS Folders. However, information maps

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39504: Setting JVM parameters for Web application servers when running SAS 9.2

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 12:55
Setting JVM Options for JBoss When JBoss is deployed in UNIX and the Linux operating environments, the JVM options are specified in the JAVA_OPTS variable that is found in

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39937: Enabling logging to capture selected filter values for a parent-level filter defined in an OLAP-based information map

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 11:21
With SAS size="-1">® 9.2, you can create parent-level filters in an OLAP-based information map that can be used by SAS size="-1">® Web Report Studio. Sometimes, y

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 20841: Accessing pre-defined SAS Financial Management reports in the SAS Information Delivery Portal

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 11:00
In the SAS Information Delivery Portal, there are several pre-defined reports available, providing information for topics such as: audit history data entry eliminations facts loa

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39901: SAS OLAP Cube Studio evaluates the need for the VALIDVARNAME option starting in SAS 9.2

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 10:57
When building a cube in SAS 9.1 using SAS OLAP Cube Studio, the VALIDVARNAME=ANY option is always set even though it might not be needed. This behavior has been changed in SAS 9.2 for SAS OLAP Cube Studio. Specifica

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39622: The path to the images is not correct when the BASE= ODS HTML option is specified with the SAS/GRAPH Statistical Graphics procedures

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 17:49
The path to the images is not correct when the BASE= ODS HTML option is specified with the SAS/GRAPH Statistical Graphics procedures.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 37250: Unexpected behavior might occur when you omit or disable job steps in different releases of SAS Data Integration Studio

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 16:24
SAS Data Integration Studio 4.2 and beyond offers enhanced functionality with regard to managing which steps are included during job execution.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 18084: Formula references to unnecessary dimensions impacts performance

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 16:02
In SAS Financial Management 4.2, you are able to create formulas that contain references to dimensions that are not needed to compute the formula. Extra dimension references might negatively affect performance. An option

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 17930: CDA Table cells do not update unless calculation set to \"automatic\" in Microsoft Excel

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 15:23
There is a change in behavior with how values in CDA tables are refreshed in SAS ® Financial Management release 4.2. If a CDA table has been created using the SAS Financial Management Add-in for Mic

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 40000: PROC TEMPLATE uses a format width of 12 for numeric variables

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 11:47
Numeric variables displayed using PROC TEMPLATE use a format width of 12 if no width is specified.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38412: Data that is returned from a Teradata query might not be sorted in ascending order

Tue, 06/15/2010 - 10:51
Data that is returned from a Teradata query might not be sorted in ascending order. The incorrect sort order is caused by a limitation of Teradata. When this happens, an error message similar to the following is generate

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 36654: Customizing the logoff URL for SAS 9.2 Web applications

Mon, 06/14/2010 - 16:44
The behavior of the Logoff button with SAS Logon Manager might need to be customized in order to integrate with various security scenarios, including the CA SiteMinder Web Access Manager. This capability is available with the third maintenance releas

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39344: Solutions Support for Migration and the \"Modify Host Name References Tool\" - The Third Maintenance Release for SAS 9.2 (TS2M3)

Fri, 06/11/2010 - 13:06
This SAS note provides information about solution support for Windows-to-Windows migration, UNIX-to-UNIX migration, and the Update Host Name References Tool. In the following table, the ";Windows to Windows M

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39858: SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle must be reconfigured after you apply the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 (TS2M2)

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:31
After you apply the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 (TS2M2) in UNIX environments, you must reconfigure SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle. The reconfiguration is necessary in order to create the SASORA symbolic link and

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39715: A \"File does not exist\" error occurs when you attempt to read Microsoft Access tables

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 15:48
When you attempting to read Microsoft Access tables that contain nested queries, the following error occurs: "Error: File _IMEX_.yourtablename.DATA does not exist."

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 33149: Configuring Apache Tomcat as a service during post installation

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 15:04
If you do not select Tomcat to run as a service during an installion, then you will not have the Tomcat executable file. This note explains how to obtain and install the executable file.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39368: Reconfiguring the SAS Content Server to share the database that is used by SAS Shared Services

Wed, 06/09/2010 - 13:58
Note: This SAS Note currently replaces "Reconfiguring the SAS Content Server to Share the Database Used by SAS Shared Services" in the "http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biwaag/63536/PD

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 39815: Axis values might be removed if there are too many tick marks to display on a graph in SAS Web Report Studio

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 16:16
In SAS Web Report Studio, horizontal or vertical axis values might be removed when a graph does not have enough room to display all of the tick marks. This action is taken instead of not displaying the graph at all.