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Problem Note 59898: The error "Unable to transcode data" is generated when you execute campaigns against a non-Western Latin (WLATIN1) Netezza database

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SAS® Customer Intelligence campaigns might fail to publish or export data when the underlying database is Netezza. When this problem occurs, the following error is generated.

ERROR: Unable to transcode data.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

This error occurs when the SAS® compute tier and the SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Netezza engine are deployed on a Microsoft Windows server and the data contains non-Western Latin (WLATIN1) characters (for example, UTF-8 or other double-byte character sets [DBCS]).

When the underlying SAS sessions have a UTF-8 encoding, non-ASCII character data might not be transcoded correctly and is exported in binary format when it is bulk loaded to the Netezza database. This behavior is not limited to Microsoft Windows servers; it might occur on all platforms.

For more information, see SAS Note 59905, "ERROR: Unable to transcode data. . ." occurs when you access a non-Western Latin (WLATIN1) Netezza database."

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Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS Customer Intelligence Core Mid-Tier64-bit Enabled AIX6.56.59.4 TS1M39.4 TS1M5
64-bit Enabled Solaris6.56.59.4 TS1M39.4 TS1M5
HP-UX IPF6.56.59.4 TS1M39.4 TS1M5
Linux for x646.56.59.4 TS1M39.4 TS1M5
Solaris for x646.56.59.4 TS1M39.4 TS1M5
Microsoft® Windows® for x646.56.59.4 TS1M39.4 TS1M5
* 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.