Hello Chris,

I have been working with SAS for many years but have not seen the error I have been seeing lately - it is driving me nuts. Whenever I run a simple SQL or Data step, I get the following warning:

NOTE: Data file XXX.XXXX.DATA is in a format that is native to another host, or the file encoding does not match the session encoding. Cross Environment Data Access will be used, which might require additional CPU resources and might reduce performance.

which is fine but then the error:

processing (data step or other) has been abnormally terminated.

I have done a lot of research regarding this - compatibility issue but have not been able to find a solution. Even the code that you suggest I run does not produce any output (of course I changed the name of the library). Similarly, other codes suggested by other troubleshooters seem to run but don't produce anything.

I am using SAS 9.2 TS Level 2M3, W32_VSPRO platform. Windows version 6.1.7600 Intel core2 duo T9550