I have a character variable in my dataset that I would like to use as an argument to the INPUT function and create a new numeric variable with a user defined informat. I have recently started using Studio in the Viya platform after working in SAS EG in the old platform where I can do this by using invalue statement in proc format to create the informat and then using that as the argument to the INPUT function.   When I try to replicate this in SAS Studio 5.1 (Viya Release V.03.04) by including a CAS format library, I get a note saying informats cannot be written to a CAS session (this is documented in the SAS Viya documentation as well) and so the user defined informat is created in WORK.formats. Referencing this informat to process my dataset in CAS via the INPUT function errors out saying the informat was not found or could not be loaded.   Any help for a workaround or suggestion to correct how I am trying to achieve this would be much appreciated.   Thanks ... View more