In SAS 9.4M6, a change was made to remove trailing blanks in SAS email attachments. This behavior causes problems with some attachments when you read in a text file. Some attachments need these trailing blanks that are now being trimmed.

To revert to the behavior before the change that removed the trailing blanks, you must install the hot fix if you are running SAS 9.4M6 and run the following code in order to set the registry option that reverts the behavior. This code updates sasuser, which is not allocated in batch. It also updates WORK, which goes away when the job completes. The following code needs to be added to your job before your EMAIL code to revert the behavior, so makes sure it is in the code before the code that needs to be reverted:

The registry uses IBM-037 encoding. If IBM-1047 is used, you need to manually change the hexadecimal value for brackets in the above code. When turning hexadecimal on, you need to change x'BA' to x'AD' and x'BB' to x'BD' in for the code to run successfully. 

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M6 is available at: