topic cant seem to read .sas7bvew file created with SunOS using EG-v4.3 in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45761#M5223 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I tried to open a file named *.sas7bvew using EG.</P><P></P><P>The file was created on SunOS, but when I open it in EG, it is garbage....</P><P></P><P>There are import options, that don't seem to do anything....</P><P></P><P>I tried open-&gt;data,&nbsp; import... Same thing..</P><P></P><P></P><P>Any help appreciated!</P><P>jim</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:48:44 GMT carterson2 2012-02-03T21:48:44Z cant seem to read .sas7bvew file created with SunOS using EG-v4.3 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45761#M5223 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I tried to open a file named *.sas7bvew using EG.</P><P></P><P>The file was created on SunOS, but when I open it in EG, it is garbage....</P><P></P><P>There are import options, that don't seem to do anything....</P><P></P><P>I tried open-&gt;data,&nbsp; import... Same thing..</P><P></P><P></P><P>Any help appreciated!</P><P>jim</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:48:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45761#M5223 carterson2 2012-02-03T21:48:44Z cant seem to read .sas7bvew file created with SunOS using EG-v4.3 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45762#M5224 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's an Index not a data set.&nbsp; Probably why you cannot peak at it from EG.</P><P></P><P>This might shed some light:</P><P></P><P><A href="http://www.okstate.edu/sas/v8/sashtml/files/z0987012.htm"></A><A href="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi27/p069-27.pdf">http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi27/p069-27.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:07:22 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45762#M5224 TriciaA 2012-02-03T22:07:22Z cant seem to read .sas7bvew file created with SunOS using EG-v4.3 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45763#M5225 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>That externsion if for a view.&nbsp; I do not think that views are portable across platforms.&nbsp; EG would need to download the data from the view to SAS dataset (or other format) to be able to read it natively as EG is NOT SAS.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:06:45 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/cant-seem-to-read-sas7bvew-file-created-with-SunOS-using-EG-v4-3/m-p/45763#M5225 Tom 2012-02-04T00:06:45Z