https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534384#M244 Want to understand if it better to use existing data fields in core data model and change the length defined or we should create new column<BR />Example, for amount transaction the precision set in AML is 18,5<BR />But client wants it to be 15 decimal places<BR /><BR />Second address field, client wants it to be 255 char<BR />While In AML it is 100 char<BR /><BR />So in above cases, what is recommended, we add new field or we change the data length of existing fields Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:41:48 GMT upadhi 2019-02-11T06:41:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534384#M244 Want to understand if it better to use existing data fields in core data model and change the length defined or we should create new column<BR />Example, for amount transaction the precision set in AML is 18,5<BR />But client wants it to be 15 decimal places<BR /><BR />Second address field, client wants it to be 255 char<BR />While In AML it is 100 char<BR /><BR />So in above cases, what is recommended, we add new field or we change the data length of existing fields Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:41:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534384#M244 upadhi 2019-02-11T06:41:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534386#M246 We are using SAS AML 7.1 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:45:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534386#M246 upadhi 2019-02-11T06:45:25Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534392#M247 <P>Numbers accurate to 15 decimal places are not possible in SAS. The maximum precision is 15 digits in total:</P> <P><A href="https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=hostwin&amp;docsetTarget=n04ccixfia6l2pn1f8szvttqg3hm.htm&amp;docsetVersion=9.4&amp;locale=en" target="_blank">https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=hostwin&amp;docsetTarget=n04ccixfia6l2pn1f8szvttqg3hm.htm&amp;docsetVersion=9.4&amp;locale=en</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Why does your customer want this many?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Regarding increasing the second address field. I suggest you raise a Tech Support track for that. AML documentation is not publicly available so community users can't check it out for you. Only AML customers can.</P> Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:23:07 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Fraud-AML-and-Security/Core-data-model-SAS-AML/m-p/534392#M247 SASKiwi 2019-02-11T07:23:07Z