I believe these notes began showing in recent releases of SAS 9 that can integrate with SAS Viya, which does support VARCHAR. But I can see that if you're just using SAS 9 as you always have, these notes are not needed and can be a distraction. I've found some internal notes that confirm there is not a way (currently) to suppress the note.
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