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gzr2mz39
Quartz | Level 8

This code runs without an error:

proc sql;
create table TZATDR(rename=(_BIC_ZTDR=start txtmd=label)) as
select *
from Eng.'/BIC/TZATDR'n
order by _BIC_ZTADR;
quit;
data TZATDR;
set TZATDR;
fmtname="$TZATDR";
run;

 

However, I receive an error (shown below) when I run the code below. How do I correct this error?

proc sql;
create table TZATDR(rename=(_BIC_ZTDR=start txtmd=label)) as
select *, "$TZATDR" as fmtname
from Eng.'/BIC/TZATDR'n
order by _BIC_ZTADR
;
quit;

 

ERROR: Some character data was lost during transcoding in the dataset Eng.'/BIC/TZATDR'n. Either the data contains
characters that are not representable in the new encoding or truncation occurred during transcoding.

 

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Patrick
Opal | Level 21

Just to test a theory: Do you still get the error if running below code version?

proc sql;
create table TZATDR(rename=(_BIC_ZTDR=start txtmd=label)) as
select *, "$TZATDR" as fmtname length=28
from Eng.'/BIC/TZATDR'n
order by _BIC_ZTADR
;
quit
gzr2mz39
Quartz | Level 8

Yes, I still get the same error with that code.

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