topic Re: sas7bdat files so that they are backward compatible with version 9.0 in SAS Programming

sas7bdat files that they are backward compatible with version 9.0

mona4u — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:47:20 GMT

I want a way to create sas7bdat files which are compatible with version 9.0

I'm using SAS 9.4 version

Re: sas7bdat files so that they are backward compatible with version 9.0

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:53:48 GMT

Use the extendobscounter dataset option.

Re: sas7bdat files so that they are backward compatible with version 9.0

mona4u — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:13:10 GMT

I used this option in my sas session when I created the sas data files but I'm not confident enough to send it to the client.

Re: sas7bdat files so that they are backward compatible with version 9.0

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:25:49 GMT

From my experience, extendnobscounter=no should do the trick.

You might get into trouble if your environment is 64-bit, and the client's is 32-bit only. In that case I'd recommend using proc cport/cimport or the xport engine. Which is probably the best solution anyway.

Re: sas7bdat files that they are backward compatible with version 9.0

Ksharp — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:37:47 GMT

libname x v6 'c:\temp';
data class;
 set sashelp.class;
run;