Problem Note 20673: Using PROC CIMPORT in DBCS version of SAS® may result in errors or
garbage characters if transport file contains data with indexes
When using the double-byte character set (DBCS) version of SAS® and PROC
CIMPORT to import a transport file containing a data set with composite
indexes, you may find garbage characters in the index names of the
converted data.
Additionally, the following warning may occur:
WARNING: This transport file was created by an earlier release of
SAS that did not record its encoding. Data may not be imported
correctly if the current session encoding is not compatible with
the session encoding when the transport file was created.
In the case of a data set and simple index, PROC CIMPORT may also
generate the following:
ERROR: The index name ___ must be the same as
the variable name ____ for a simple index.
WARNING: Skipping data set due to error.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
The following is an example of a condition that produces these messages.
Shift-jis and euc-jp are both Japanese encodings. If the transport file
was created in a SAS session with the encoding value of shift-jis and
you are importing the file into a SAS session with the encoding value of
euc-jp, and the data set contains indexes, you may receive an error
and/or garbage characters in the converted data. The same occurs for
Chinese encoding values euc-cn and ibm-935.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
Type: | Problem Note |
Priority: | medium |
Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> CPORT
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Date Modified: | 2007-08-23 11:59:40 |
Date Created: | 2007-07-24 19:44:34 |