Date:         Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:38:01 -0600
Reply-To:     Amy Swinford <aimless35@QWEST.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Amy Swinford <aimless35@QWEST.NET>
Subject:      Limitations in FMS (formerly CFOVision)
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Wondering if anyone is aware of any unpublished limitations with the FMS
product that would cause a consolidation not to complete? We have a
problem on our system where we can create a consolidation in 30-40
minutes. The addition of a couple of files (about 2.5Mbytes total size)
causes the thing to either hang up and fail to complete or in one case
it did complete but took over 7 hours to finish. I can easily run a
summary on these in about 3 and 1/2 minutes, less with NWAY, so it
doesn't seem like they are really the problem. I'm about out of ideas,
and SAS tech support has had this problem for over a week with no
solution. Anybody else run into similar problems and come up with a
solution?

Just a note for people considering this or similar SAS 'vertical'
products: I really HATE not having control over the code. It is beyond
annoying to run into a problem and not be able to look at the code to
fix it.