Issue while registering snowflake tables in SMC via snowflake odbc connector(encoding utf-8 in sas)

[keerthi78890976]

Hi All,

Registering tables was working fine with Latin1 encoding.After changing the sas encoding to utf-8 , we are facing issue while registering snowflake tables in SMC which is setup via snowflake odbc connector.There are spaces in the tables retrieved from snowflake database. Below is the error: 

NOTE: SAS Initialization used (Total process time):
real time 0.00 seconds
cpu time 0.00 seconds

NOTE: The autoexec file, /sas/sasconfig/Lev1/SASApp1/WorkspaceServer/autoexec.sas, was executed at server initialization.
1 LIBNAME testodbc ODBC PRESERVE_COL_NAMES=YES PRESERVE_TAB_NAMES=YES DATAsrc=xxx SCHEMA=xxx
1 ! USER=xxx  PASSWORD=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ;
NOTE: Libref TESTODBC was successfully assigned as follows:
Engine: ODBC
Physical Name: BOPS_DB_PROD
2
2 The SAS System Thursday, June 27, 2019 09:09:00 AM

NOTE: 25 table(s) not displayed/returned because the name is too long.
3 proc metalib;
4 omr (LIBURI="A5MSZA1O.BA0000TF" / project_reposid = "A5MSZA1O" );
5 REPORT(type = summary out = "tab_info");
6 SELECT ("C

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If we are not mentioning PRESERVE_TAB_NAMES=YES, we are seeing the below error:

NOTE: The autoexec file, /sas/sasconfig/Lev1/SASApp1/WorkspaceServer/autoexec.sas, was executed at server initialization.
1 LIBNAME stg_dexp ODBC READBUFF=32767 INSERTBUFF=32767 AUTOCOMMIT=NO DBCOMMIT=10000 DATAsrc=xxx
1 ! SCHEMA=xxx USER=xx  PASSWORD=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ;
NOTE: Libref STG_DEXP was successfully assigned as follows:
Engine: ODBC
Physical Name: xxx
2
2 The SAS System Thursday, June 27, 2019 09:15:00 AM

NOTE: Due to the PRESERVE_TAB_NAMES=NO libname option setting, 7 table(s) have not been displayed/returned. 25 table(s) not
displayed/returned because the name is too long.

Could you please help on this issue.

[keerthi78890976 · Accepted solution]

This issue is fixed, added following option in sasenv_local file :

export EASYSOFT_UNICODE=YES;