Not sure if this is the case in this situation but I've experienced similar cases where the root cause was that the Forecast Server license needed to be upgraded. Since the metadata layer is involved, please make sure that any software update is done using the SAS Deployment Wizard. Thanks, Snurre ... View more

Hello - I just tried to replicate this behavior with SAS Forecast Server 3.1 - but I could not. You might want to contact Technical Support to track down the problem. Thanks, Udo ... View more

David - There are 2 types of model families which allow you to include independent variables in SAS Forecast Server: a) ARIMAX b) UCM You will find a brief overview of how these techniques work in this whitepaper: "Large-Scale Automatic Forecasting Using Inputs and Calendar Events" - available here:http://www.sas.com/reg/wp/corp/3478 More details are provided in SAS online help. --Udo Message was edited by: udo@sas ... View more

Hello - You might want to check out this whitepaper by Mike Leonard: Large-Scale Automatic Forecasting Using Inputs and Calendar Events (www.sas.com/reg/wp/corp/3478). In my opinion it provides a nice high-level description of the automatic forecasting process implemented in SAS Forecast Server. Hope that helps, Udo ... View more

Have openned track with tech support, however still have not received solution. Any ideas what may be causing this? Thanks. ... View more