
Solution
Make user-defined formats available from the SAS Application Server, or make them
available for a particular job.
A format is an instruction that SAS uses to write data values. Formats are used to control
the written appearance of data values, or, in some cases, to group data values together
for analysis. An informat is an instruction that SAS uses to read nonstandard data values,
such as dates, currency values, or hexadecimal values.
To make a custom format library available to any application that uses a particular SAS
Application Server, administrators should see the "Working With User-Defined
Formats" section of the "Connecting to ...