Customization for Internationalization (I18N)

This configuration step is optional. SAS IT Resource Management does not extract any text tables from SAP. Therefore, you can use the default language encoding even if your customer requires your SAP system to be a Unicode system. To configure the Adapter in an Internationalization Environment:

Configure SAS Unicode Server, if your SAP system is a Unicode system.

SAP data is on Unicode pages. You therefore need to use appropriate transcoding while extracting the SAP data using the SAS Data Surveyor for SAP. Configure SAS environment to point to the SAS Unicode Server.
Modify the SASV9.CFG file to access the SAS Unicode server. The default path for SASV9.CFG is C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3.

SASV9.CFG
Change the following code snippet in the SASV9.CFG file to replace “en” by “u8”
```
-CONFIG 
"C:\ProgramFiles\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.3\nls\u8\SASV9.CFG"
```
In a UNIX environment, replace “en” by “u8”, in the sas file, under the /SASFoundation/9.3 folder. Here is the code that appears in the UNIX environment after you replace “en” with “u8”.
```
# Environmental variable to define config file lookthrough
if [ "$SASCFGPATH" ] ; then
  SASCFGPATH="!SASROOT/sasv9.cfg, !SASROOT/nls/u8/sasv9.cfg,
!SASROOT/sasv9_local.cfg, $SASCFGPATH"
else
  SASCFGPATH="!SASROOT/sasv9.cfg, !SASROOT/nls/u8/sasv9.cfg,
!SASROOT/sasv9_local.cfg"
```
Restart the SAS Services after the code changes are complete. Change the SASV9.CFG file to point to the appropriate encoding, based on your encoding requirement.

Note: The preceding example is for a Windows environment. Apply the above changes appropriately, as per the host at your site. For further details about SAS Unicode server, see the SAS support site.

Note: Steps 1-4 are not applicable for z/OS, as there is no Unicode server in a z/OS environment.