topic Re: SAS version 5.18 in Administration and Deployment

SAS version 5.18

rlmacdonald — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:59:35 GMT

Does anyone have a version of SAS that will read files created in SAS version 5.16 on a VAX VMS system? Thanks.

Re: SAS version 5.18

SASKiwi — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:57:43 GMT

You are talking about a SAS version from the 1980s - over 30 years ago. Even worse on an obsolete operating system that I doubt still exists. You best bet is to talk to SAS Tech Support.

Re: SAS version 5.18

alexal — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:14:09 GMT

@SASKiwi ,

@SASKiwi wrote:

You are talking about a SAS version from the 1980s - over 30 years ago. Even worse on an obsolete operating system that I doubt still exists. You best bet is to talk to SAS Tech Support.

We used to have machines with version 6.12, but not anymore.

Re: SAS version 5.18

ballardw — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:49:30 GMT

You may want to check and see if any of your sets were made into SAS transport files. These would have had to be made awhile ago and might have an XPT file extension (been ages since I looked at a VAX file system). If so you may be able to move those to your new system and import into SAS with Proc Copy.

This may be a long shot but if the files exist it may save more convoluted approaches.

OR if you have the raw text data files that were read by SAS and the code to create the SAS data sets then you could move those, update a few file related elements like paths and rerun the code to recreate the data sets.

But I may be the only person that obsessive to have the text and code ...

Barring that I second @SASKiwi on contacting SAS tech support.

Re: SAS version 5.18

Ksharp — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:24:33 GMT

Could try lower version engine.

libname x v6 '/tmp/sas_dataset_path/';

Re: SAS version 5.18

rlmacdonald — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:32:50 GMT

Thanks, they haven't been able to help.

Re: SAS version 5.18

rlmacdonald — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:35:28 GMT

Thanks. There is a file that is possibly a transport file (extension .bck) but it doesn't open in the SAS viewer or SAS 9.4 or a program called dbmscopy (version 7). I don't have any original text files. Thanks for the help though

Re: SAS version 5.18

rlmacdonald — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:38:35 GMT

Thanks. I am not a SAS programmer, I'll ask my collaborators who can try to do this.