Thanks @DJongman .   I do know how to create custom steps and add them to flow. I'm asking for solutions for the points that I listed in my first post that can not implement (or I don't know how) on the current version of SAS Studio    ... View more

Thank you @DavidStern. I can understand the reasons. It seems that I should try harder to do it by myself, using SAS Open Metadata Interface server interfaces. Any advice will be very helpful.   Anyway, thanks for sharing the paper.   QC ... View more

@Billybob73 wrote: Shen / Kurt,   This is it ! By default it encodes to ANSI. with this option to utf 16.   Why does this not work when I tried this ?     filename zip pipe "zip  %superq(zipmap)\&zipfile %superq(zipmap)\*";   data _null_;     infile zip encoding="utf-16";     input;     put _infile_;   run; What is the purpose of this code? The usage of the unnamed pipe is not correct, I think. If you want to read files in a zip file within SAS code, you can try FILENAME ZIP access method.  There are several blogs writen by Chris Hemedinger show how to use FILENAME ZIP access method. Here are some URLs: https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2014/01/29/using-filename-zip/ https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2015/05/11/using-filename-zip-to-unzip-and-read-data-files-in-sas/   Hope this helps.   Shen ... View more

Thanks Kurt.  I appreciate the help.     Ron ... View more

Thanks, LinusH. Yes, your suggestion might be one solution. I just wonder why EG treates built-in task differently from other stuffs(progarams, custom tasks).   Shen ... View more