Prerequisites for Adding Custom Polygon Data

General Prerequisites
Considerations for Non-English Character Data

General Prerequisites

Before you can add custom polygon data to SAS Visual Analytics, you must meet the following prerequisites:
  • access to a SAS programming interface
  • polygon data in Esri shapefile file format
  • a license for SAS/GRAPH software
  • access to the SAS Visual Analytics configuration directory
  • administrative rights to restart services
You must also add a MAPSCSTM library to your SAS Web Application Server’s autoexec file. See MAPSCSTM Library.

Considerations for Non-English Character Data

If your custom polygon data contains non-English characters, then the ENCODING= system option for your SAS Workspace Server and the encoding of the SAS LASR Analytic Server must be configured for an encoding that is compatible with the custom polygon data. It is recommended that you configure your SAS Workspace Server and SAS LASR Analytic Server for UTF-8 encoding.
Note: As a workaround, you can transcode your custom polygon data by using the CORRECTENCODING= option for the DATASETS procedure. See CORRECTENCODING= Option in SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide.
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Last updated: December 18, 2018