Problem Note 20814: PROC CONVERT and SPSS Engine limit variable names to eight characters
Recent versions of SPSS allow for longer variable names (greater than
eight characters). When importing SPSS portable files using PROC
CONVERT or the SPSS engine, long variable names are truncated to eight
characters.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
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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 ==> CONVERT
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| Date Modified: | 2007-08-16 20:50:34 |
| Date Created: | 2007-08-16 20:50:34 |
