Problem Note 59905: "ERROR: Unable to transcode data..." occurs when accessing a non-Western Latin (WLATIN1) Netezza database
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The following error might occur when you try to read in data from a Netezza database in a SAS® session that is configured for UTF-8 encoding:
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
This error occurs when the data being read by SAS and SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Netezza contains non-Western Latin (WLATIN1) characters (for example, UTF-8 or other double-byte character sets [DBCS]).
When the SAS session encoding is UTF-8 and you are writing to the Netezza database using BULKLOAD=YES, you might also see that non-ASCII character data is not transcoded to the target column's character set, but is instead written in binary format. This might result in data-quality issues when working with third-party tools.
Note: This issue was originally reported on Microsoft Windows servers, but it could occur on all platforms.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Netezza | Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.3 TS1M2 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Linux | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.3_M1 | 9.42 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||