Problem Note 49890: Files opened in an English DBCS or Japanese edition of a SAS® 9.3 session fail in UNIX operating environments
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Under UNIX, a failure occurs when you try to open a file in English DBCS or Japanese editions of the SAS 9.3 windowing environment. For example, the failure occurs when you select File ► Open in your SAS session. However, no error message occurs to alert you to the issue.
This problem occurs when a Japanese file contains Shift-JIS characters that have 0x5B, 0x5D, or 0x5E in the second byte of a double-byte character.
The problem does not occur when you open files with SAS 9.3 in Windows operating environments.
You can either work around the problem or download a hot fix.
To work around this problem under UNIX, use an INCLUDE statement in a SAS program to open the file.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||