In reply to Chris DeHart.

Hi Chris , Using 9.4M8 version currently but still see the WARNING message in the log when using the SUB_CHAR option . This is frustrating actually . I know the intention is to notify the user of the pesky characters in the data but why not issue a NOTE instead of a WARNING ? This is especially needed when the SAS job runs in Batch Mode and the return code is expected to be 0 ( with no errors and warnings in the SAS log).