topic Accessing .sas7bcat files in New SAS User

Accessing .sas7bcat files

Appy18 — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:02:11 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am facing a problem in accessing .sas7bcat files that I downloaded from a database.

The files that I downloaded contained .sas7bdat and .sas7bcat files. I am able to access .sas7bdat but cant say the same about .sas7bcat.

Can anyone please help me in accessing those files and check whether it contains any desired datasets.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Accessing .sas7bcat files

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:13:29 GMT

SAS catalogs are specific to the environment (32/64 bit, big-endian vs little-endian, maybe even encodings) and the SAS version. There is no CEDA (Cross Environment Data Access) for them, like there is for datasets.

To move them from one environment to another, they need to be migrated, most easily by using proc cport in the current environment and proc cimport in the new.

Since former SAS versions/environments may not be available, it is always mandatory to keep the sources (data, programs) used to create those catalogs.

Re: Accessing .sas7bcat files

andreas_lds — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:13:30 GMT

@Appy18 wrote:

Hello everyone,

I am facing a problem in accessing .sas7bcat files that I downloaded from a database.

The files that I downloaded contained .sas7bdat and .sas7bcat files. I am able to access .sas7bdat but cant say the same about .sas7bcat.

Can anyone please help me in accessing those files and check whether it contains any desired datasets.

Thanks in advance.

What have you tried? Catalog-files are read by proc catalog.