Problem Note 30464: Japanese characters do not display successfully in SAS® Enterprise Guide® when you access Netezza with SAS/ACCESS® Interface to ODBC or SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Netezza
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In the UNIX environment, you might get the following error message if you attempt to display the content of SAS data sets that contain Japanese Kanji characters in SAS Enterprise Guide.
[Error] Some code points did not transcode.
This error occurs when you attempt to display the contents on a SAS Workspace Server that accesses Netezza with either SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC or SAS/ACCESS Interface to Netezza. Some data sets will display successfully, while other data sets will not display. However, if you open and query the SAS data sets in base SAS® software, ALL Japanese characters from ALL of the SAS data sets will display successfully. The problem occurs because the NCHAR and NVARCHAR types are not completely supported in SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC or in SAS/ACCESS Interface to Netezza.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
This hot fix adds partial support for NCHAR and NVARCHAR data types in SAS/ACCESS Interface to Netezza. The hot fix also enables you to read, insert, and update data in NCHAR and NVARCHAR columns, but it does not transcode any Structured Query Language (SQL). Therefore, you might continue to see errors if you use characters in encodings other than Latin-9 in your SQL statements.
Full support for NCHAR and NVARCHAR data is planned for a future release of SAS/ACCESS Interface to Netezza.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC | Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 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 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||