encoding error occurred while we migrating programs from sas to sas viya

[soujik]

Hi,

We are migrating code from sas coe to sas viya  and we are facing below error, please help me

ERROR: File RSTATS.PROGRAM_OUTPUT_FILES cannot be updated because its encoding does not match the session encoding or the file is
in a format native to another host, such as HP_UX_64, RS_6000_AIX_64, SOLARIS_64, HP_IA64.

[sbxkoenk · Accepted solution]

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@soujik wrote:

We are migrating code from sas coe to sas viya  and we are facing below error, please help me

ERROR: File RSTATS.PROGRAM_OUTPUT_FILES cannot be updated because its encoding does not match the session encoding or the file is in a format native to another host, such as HP_UX_64, RS_6000_AIX_64, SOLARIS_64, HP_IA64.

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What is SAS coe?? Is it SAS 9.4??
What is file RSTATS.PROGRAM_OUTPUT_FILES?? Is it a dataset (*.sas7bdat) or a calalog?

Probably you need to change from wlatin1 to UTF-8 Encoding.
The SAS doc is full of examples / recommendations on how to do that.

Koen

[soujik]

it is sas 9.4 and please provide sas doc to resolve issue

[sbxkoenk]

Hello,

This is doc for Viya 3.5.
But it is also valid for Viya 4.

(If you want , you can look up the same doc-sections for Viya 4)

SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya® 3.5 Programming Documentation | SAS 9.4 / Viya 3.5
Migrating Data to UTF-8 for SAS® Viya® 3.5
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/viyadatamig/titlepage.htm

Migrating Data from WLATIN1 to UTF-8
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/viyadatamig/p1eedruqfsgqqcn1pmjof4br5xvt.h...

Koen