topic Re: Converting from 64 bit to 32 bit SAS in SAS Procedures

Converting from 64 bit to 32 bit SAS

JamesNewcombe — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:05:32 GMT

Hello

I have SAS 9.3 64-bit on a Windows 7 computer, but all the other computers in my department are SAS 9.2 32-bit on a Windows XP. It will be a while before we get them updated to 9.3, but I want to use my new 64-bit computer because it runs a lot faster.

Is there a way to convert the SAS datasets output by my 64-bit computer to 32-bit so that there are no compatibility issues for my colleagues using the files I create?

Many Thanks.

Re: Converting from 64 bit to 32 bit SAS

LinusH — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:13:40 GMT

Using Proc Cport/cimport is usually the most safe way to share data between environments, even it's a bit manual if you need to do it often.

Re: Converting from 64 bit to 32 bit SAS

art297 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:14:13 GMT

Take a look at: http://support.sas.com/kb/38/339.html

Re: Converting from 64 bit to 32 bit SAS

SandorSzalma — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:22:29 GMT

you can use SAS 9.3 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit, too..

Re: Converting from 64 bit to 32 bit SAS

Tom — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:07:51 GMT

You could just make the dataset. SAS should automatically adjust using the CEDA engine.

Otherwise use the OUTREP libname option so that you write the datasets using the format that they want to use to read them.

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000214133.htm