With .sas7bdat files character variables are limited to 32KB. Depending on what you need the data in SAS for you could eventually investigate if loading the data directly into CAS would be an option using VARCHAR(*).  I have never done it but the SWAT package looks promising.  https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Better-Open-source-Integration-through-the-Python-Load-Objects/ta-p/902222  https://sassoftware.github.io/python-swat/  ... View more