In reply to Ronelle Brandt.

SAS EG uses its own logic/APIs to do this cleansing, but you can remove that step from the Import Data task by selecting these options. Under Performance (button on first page), select "Bypass cleansing". And on the final page of the wizard (Advanced), select "Generalize import step to run outside of SAS Enterprise Guide."

With those two options set, the task should create code that you can run directly in SAS (as long as the input text file is available on the system). You can then generalize that step to run within a macro program.