During SAS installation, a post-processing step builds five indexed SAS data sets for the Desktop application. They are: DESKACT, DESKFD, DESKOBJ, FEEDDET, and FEEDER. For DBCS installations, this step produces Cross Environment Data Access (CEDA) notes in the SAS Log for each of the data sets. An example of the CEDA note follows:

NOTE: Data file SASHELP.FEEDER.DATA is in a format native to another host
or the file encoding does not match the session encoding. Cross Environment
Data Access will be used, which may require additional CPU resources and 
reduce performance.

To remove the CEDA notes, you can use PROC COPY with the NOCLONE option on the selected data sets. For example:

proc copy in=sashelp out=new noclone memtype=data;
   select deskact deskfd deskobj feeddet feeder;
run;

You can also use the DATA step with the ENCODING option:

data sashelp.deskact(encoding=sjis);
   set sashelp.deskact;
run;

The five SAS data files with indexes are stored in "SASROOT/nls/en/sascfg" on UNIX and in "!SASROOT\nls\1d\sascfg" on the PC.

Operating System and Release Information

NOTE: Data file is in a format native to another host or the file encoding does not match the session encoding. Cross Environment Data Access will be used, which may require additional CPU resources and reduce performance.

data suname;
  set sashelp.vtable(keep=libname memname modate datarep encoding);
  if memname in( "DESKACT" "DESKFD" "DESKOBJ" "FEEDDET" "FEEDER");
run;

proc print data=suname;
run;

NOTE: Data file is in a format native to another host or the file encoding
      does not match the session encoding. Cross Environment Data Access 
      will be used, which may require additional CPU resources and 
      reduce performance.

Obs    libname    memname         modate        datarep           encoding

1      sashelp   DESKACT    15MAY08:16:59:30    NATIVE     wlatin1 Western (Windows)
2      sashelp   DESKFD     15MAY08:16:59:30    NATIVE     wlatin1 Western (Windows)
3      sashelp   DESKOBJ    15MAY08:16:59:30    NATIVE     wlatin1 Western (Windows)
4      sashelp   FEEDDET    15MAY08:16:59:30    NATIVE     wlatin1 Western (Windows)
5      sashelp   FEEDER     15MAY08:16:59:30    NATIVE     wlatin1 Western (Windows)