topic Re: NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding in SAS Procedures

NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding

jcis7 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:45:14 GMT

G'day!

I just switched computers. I am having trouble with SAS as I had an already existing SAS file that I am asking SAS to recognize and am getting the following note and error:

NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding does not match the session

encoding. Cross Environment Data Access will be used, which might require additional CPU resources and might reduce

performance

ERROR: Some character data was lost during transcoding in the dataset J.ALL.DATA. Either the data contains characters that are

not representable in the new encoding or truncation occurred during transcoding.

Any help you can give will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Re: NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:00:31 GMT

Make sure that your current SAS setup uses the same session encoding that your old one used. I suspect that your "new" setup is set to WLATIN1, while your "old" used UTF-8.

Re: NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding

jcis7 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:58:07 GMT

Hi, Thanks! I found the following https://support.sas.com/kb/51/586.html<>
and changed it but it asked me if I wanted to save the file and the only option is to save it as .txt or under All Files but not a cfg file. What next?

Re: NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:05:18 GMT

Save it as sasv9.cfg. If Editor adds a .txt extension on its own, use Windows Explorer to remove that.

Re: NOTE: Data file J.ALL.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding

jcis7 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:07:07 GMT

Thanks. I tried it and I am still getting the same encoding error.
When I check the dataset the encoding is the following: shift-jis Japanese (SJIS)