Problem Note 68666: The string length is tripled when reading data into SAS® with SAS/ACCESS® Interface to SAP IQ
The string length is tripled when you read data with SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP IQ. This issue happens when you run SAS with multi-byte encoding (such as UTF-8) and the SAP IQ database encoding is single-byte (such as Latin1).
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
The hot fix includes support for the LIBNAME options DBSERVER_MAX_BYTES and DBCLIENT_MAX_BYTES to SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP IQ to enable you to control the length calculations:
DBCLIENT_MAX_BYTES: Specifies the maximum number of bytes per single character in the database client encoding, which matches SAS encoding.
Default: 1
DBSERVER_MAX_BYTES: Specifies the maximum number of bytes per single character in the database server encoding.
Default: none
Operating System and Release Information
SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP IQ | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows 11 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
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The string length is tripled when reading with SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP IQ. This issue happens when you run SAS with multi-byte encoding (such as UTF-8) and the SAP IQ database encoding is single-byte (such as Latin1).
Type: | Problem Note |
Priority: | medium |
Date Modified: | 2021-12-06 15:07:40 |
Date Created: | 2021-12-06 08:36:50 |