User-Defined Formats in the Teradata EDW

You can use PROC FORMAT to create user-defined formats and store them in a format catalog. You can then use the %INDTD_PUBLISH_FORMATS macro to export the user-defined format definitions to the Teradata EDW where the SAS_PUT( ) function can reference them.

For more information about %INDTD_PUBLISH_FORMATS, see Publishing SAS Formats in Teradata. For more information about the SAS_PUT( ) function, see Using the SAS_PUT( ) Function in the Teradata EDW.

If you use the FMTCAT= option to specify a format catalog in the %INDTD_PUBLISH_FORMATS macro and if you use a character set encoding other than Latin 1, picture formats are not supported. The picture format supports only Latin 1 characters.