Errors similar to the following might be generated when PROC STP executes remotely:

When PROC STP submits a stored process and it executes remotely, the following FILENAME statement, which points to the _WEBOUT file, is added automatically: 

The _WEBOUT file is a temporary file allocation that is used to hold _WEBOUT data on the remote machine until it can be copied back to the local host.

When the local SAS^® session on which PROC STP is executing has the ENCODING system option set, PROC STP then adds an ENCODING= option to the FILENAME statement. The problem occurs when the ENCODING= value contains a non-alphanumeric character (for example, the dash character [-] in the value UTF-8). Values for the ENCODING= option must be surrounded by quotation marks if they contain non-alphanumeric characters. 

To work around this problem, you need to force PROC STP to run locally instead of remotely by adding the SERVER=LOCAL option to the PROC STP statement. The FILENAME statement for _WEBOUT is not generated when the stored process executes locally. 

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M5 is available at:

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