When SAS is run in a multi-byte encoded session such as UTF-8 or various double-byte character sets (DBCSs) such as EUC_CN, the SAS/ACCESS^® Interface to Hadoop engine sizes the character columns the same as declared in Hive. For Hive character types (STRING, VARCHAR, CHAR), this behavior might cause data truncation because encoded characters might require multiple bytes when read. 

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

After you apply the hot fix, column lengths for character data from Hive are inflated in SAS. The inflation is two times for SAS DBCS encodings such as EUC_CN and three times for UTF-8.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel DS2 and FedSQL Language Processors 9.41_M1 is available at: