SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46531: Special characters might cause the Platform Object Framework batch import and export utilities to fail on Z/OS with a syntax error.

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:03:12 EST

When entering batch export and import commands (ImportPackage or ExportPackage) on z/OS systems, you might need to precede special characters with a backslash character (\). Otherwise a syntax error will be produced.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 38802: Calculating the absolute value in MDX for a measure in a SAS OLAP cube

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:47:36 EST

In SAS size="-1">® 9.2, you can use Base SAS functions in MDX, and therefore the ABS function will be available to you when defining a calculated measure, like:

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46597: SAS Drug Development version 3.5 - Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8 becomes unresponsive when browsing folders with large numbers of files

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:01:24 EST

SAS Drug Development version 3.5 - Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8 becomes unresponsive when browsing folders with large numbers of files

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 44240: Java exceptions and the message \"access is denied\" might occur when you attempt to run sas.tools.viewregistry.jar

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:26:43 EST

When you attempt to run sas.tools.viewregistry.jar under Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server, you might see an "Access denied" message or a Java exception messages similar to the following:

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46627: PROC INFOMAPS might fail in SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office when metadata credentials are not specified

Mon, 21 May 2012 15:42:48 EST

When executing PROC INFOMAPS code on a workspace or stored process server, you typically can specify METACREDENTIALS=NO instead of specifying a user ID and password. However, you might see an error if the following conditi

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46541: Pipe communication failures occur when using the EXCELCS, ACCESSCS, or PCFILES engines

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:47:46 EST

Pipe communication failures can occur when using the PC Files Server engines, EXCELCS, ACCESSCS, or PCFILES engines. The problem occurs particularly on network drives. The problem occurs when using older ODBC drivers from Microsoft.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46121: The Results window might not display SAS output that is generated from a SAS/AF application invoked via the INITCMD invocation option

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:01:09 EST

Beginning with SAS 9.3, if you invoke your SAS/AF application using the INITCMD invocation option and your SAS/AF application generates SAS output to the Results window, the Results window might not display.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 33487: Options to enable full SQL logging in SAS 9.1.3 when the SAS OLAP Server accesses DBMS tables

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:19:27 EST

The default configuration for the SAS OLAP Server only logs partial SQL statements processed for queries to a DMBS table. This note has suggested SAS options to enable more complete logging of SQL statements in SAS 9.1.3.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 45994: SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 and later do not have detailed logging or audit capabilities

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:48:09 EST

SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 and later do not have detailed logging or audit capabilities. Although you can increase logging through SASBIDashboard4.3 Local Services in SAS size="-1">® Managemen

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46128: Enable searching in double-byte character set (DBCS) output created by ODS PDF

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:24:15 EST

By default, PDF files created on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and UTF8 sessions are not searchable.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46661: Converted data explorations do not show data items in the Select Data dialog box in SAS Web Report Studio

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:46 EST

Beginning with the November 2010 release of SAS 9.2, when you upgrade or migrate, the SAS deployment tools automatically convert each bookmark in a data exploration into a report that you can view and edit using SAS Web Re

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46655: Priority-based optimization is the only valid optimization option offered by SAS Marketing Automation

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:25:39 EST

Three choices of optimization method might appear to be offered in SAS ® Customer Intelligence Studio: Analytical scenario optimization Priority-based optimization Priority s

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 45423: An extension load error occurs when you start a 32-bit SAS session from a 64-bit SAS session

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:34:28 EST

An "extension load error" might occur when you attempt to start a 32-bit child SAS session from a 64-bit SAS session running on Windows and using an X statement or other system command interface. Here is an example of s

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 45377: Troubleshooting techniques to try if the Platform Computing Load Information Manager (LIM) service is in a \"Stopping\" state

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:47:51 EST

When you try to stop the LIM service from the Windows Services Control Panel, the state of the service might show only "Stopping." Set the following debug option to determine whether the issue appears because the

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 30917: Scheduling projects in SAS Enterprise Guide

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:57:18 EST

This note explains how to configure SAS Enterprise Guide so that it passes your credentials to the remote server when you are not interactively logged on to your client machine.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46420: The Plug-ins, Folders, and Search tabs are missing from SAS Management Console in SAS 9.3

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:08:26 EST

If you open SAS Management Console and find that your navigation pane is missing the Plug-ins , Folders , and Search tabs, do the following: Move your mouse t

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46672: CAT Family of functions introduced in SAS 9.0

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:37:03 EST

The new CAT functions make it easier to concatenate text strings.

SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 46640: SAS Drug Development version 3.5 - Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8 might have problems recognizing Office 2007 and 2010 file extensions.

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:58:50 EST

SAS Drug Development version 3.5 - Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8 might have problems recognizing Office 2007 and 2010 file extensions including docx and xlsx files.