Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:43:31 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Abernathy <tom.abernathy@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Tom Abernathy <tom.abernathy@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      system option GENERIC/NOGENERIC
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Does anyone know what the option GENERIC does?

SAS showed me that I can use OPTION GENERIC to turn off these warning
messages:

NOTE: Data file TEST.ONE.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.

But I cannot find any documentation on this option.
I wonder if it will impact of things besides these warning messages.

- Tom Abernathy