topic Re: SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views in SAS Programming

SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views

vijayanand — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:28:35 GMT

Hi,

Recently I had to migrate some of the SAS CATALOGS (SAS7BCAT) and SAS VIEWS (SAS7VEW) from AIX to Linux server.

How do I ensure that these catalogs and sasviews are same across AIX and Linux.

Can I use PROC COPARE to compare teh catalogs and sasviews.?

Thanks,

Vijay.

Re: SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views

SASKiwi — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:11:21 GMT

PROC COMPARE can't be used with catalogs. What type of entries are in your catalogs?

For PROC COMPARE to work on views it would need to have access to both the AIX and linux versions at the same time which I suspect is not possible. What you could do is copy the datasets coming out of the views on AIX over to linux, then COMPARE that with the datasets created from the views on linux.

Re: SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views

vijayanand — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:44:07 GMT

The catalog entries are mostly formats

Re: SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views

Ksharp — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:39:28 GMT

Just copy SAS CATALOGS (SAS7BCAT) and SAS VIEWS (SAS7VEW) into Linux ?

since aix and linux are both like-unix OP.

If you worry about this problem, try PROC CPORT and PROC CIMPORT

Re: SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views

ballardw — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:46:56 GMT

@Ksharp wrote:

Just copy SAS CATALOGS (SAS7BCAT) and SAS VIEWS (SAS7VEW) into Linux ?

since aix and linux are both like-unix OP.

If you worry about this problem, try PROC CPORT and PROC CIMPORT

And always make sure that you have the code to recreate the formats, or at least CNTLIN data sets for Proc Format to use to recreate if needed.