Starting with SAS 9.2, you can use the NAME= option in SAS/GRAPH to create external graph file names that are greater than eight characters in length. With SAS 9.2, the maximum length of the NAME= value is 256 characters.

Note that while you can use the NAME= option to create external graph files names that are greater than eight characters in length, SAS/GRAPH GRSEG entry names are still limited to a maximum of eight characters. NAME= values longer than eight characters will be truncated to eight characters to create the GRSEG entry name.

If you see the following NOTE statement in the SAS Log:

NOTE: Graph's name, XYZ, changed to XYZ1.  XYZ is already 
used or not a valid SAS name.

You can use a long NAME= value when creating a graphics stream file without ODS, such as:

filename grafout 'c:\temp';

goptions reset=goptions device=png 
         gsfname=grafout gsfmode=replace;

proc gchart data=sashelp.class;
   vbar height / name="longnamevalue";
run;
quit;

You can also use a long NAME= value when creating graph image files with the ODS HTML statement, such as:

filename odsout 'c:\temp';

ods listing close;

ods html path=odsout file='sastest.html';

goptions reset=goptions device=png;

proc gchart data=sashelp.class;
   vbar height / name="longnamevalue";
run;
quit;

ods html close; 
ods listing;

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