topic Converting to native format on Win64 in SAS Programming

Converting to native format on Win64

BruceBrad — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:53:40 GMT

I have a set of SAS datasets which were created on a Windows 32 machine (I think). I want to make copies of the files in native Windows 64 bit format. How can I do this? I thought the following would work (running on the Win64 machine)

libname oldfiles "folder";

libname newfiles v9 "folder";

proc datasets;

copy in=oldfiles out=newfiles;

run;quit;

but this just copies the files, keeping their previous format.

Converting to native format on Win64

BruceBrad — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:38:01 GMT

Found the solution. Use the noclone option. As per below.

libname oldfiles "folder";

libname newfiles v9 "folder";

proc datasets;

copy in=oldfiles out=newfiles noclone;

run;quit;

Converting to native format on Win64

FriedEgg — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:55:18 GMT

PROC MIGRATE:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a002592164.htm