Extend Support for Double-Byte Characters in Table and Variable Names

If your locale contains national characters or multi-byte characters, you can extend naming convention support for tables that have a table name or that contain variable names with double-byte characters. After you extend support, you can register these tables in the Tables category in SAS Model Manager. (Select Data

Tables.) You can view these tables and use them to create summary tables. Tables with extended support for double-byte characters can also be used in models, model projects, and model portfolios, as well as in their associated tasks.

To enable support for these types of tables:

Add the following lines to the autoexec_usermods.sas file.
```
options validmemname=extend;
options validvarname=any;
```
For Windows environments, this file is located in the \SAS-configuration-directory\Levn\SASApp\WorkspaceServer\ directory.

For UNIX environments, this file is located in the /SAS-configuration-directory/Levn/SASApp/WorkspaceServer/ directory.
Set the Valid Variable Name Options setting to Yes in SAS Management Console. For more information, see Valid Variable Name Options.

Note: Although the VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND and VALIDVARNAME=ANY system options extend support for double-byte characters, blanks, and special characters, SAS Model Manager does not fully support these options. Special characters and blanks in table names or variable names are not supported.

Extend Support for Double-Byte Characters in Table and Variable Names

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