topic Re: exporting to stata with user-defined formats in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17357#M3283 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is still a problem. When will it be fixed?</P><P>S</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:08:49 GMT Sticky 2014-09-22T00:08:49Z exporting to stata with user-defined formats https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17355#M3281 when I try exporting SAS datasets to Stata the user-defined format names are truncated to 8 characters so are never found. Problem Note 31711 says that this was fixed in 9.2 but it appears not have been It also happens when exporting to SPSS.<BR /> I'm using 9.2TS2M3 on Win XP.<BR /> Cheers<BR /> Richard Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:45:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17355#M3281 Sticky 2010-10-15T01:45:31Z Re: exporting to stata with user-defined formats https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17356#M3282 Contact SAS Technical Support for clarification and guidance with your problem. There is a link on the SAS Support website and at the bottom of the Discussion Forums web pages.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc. Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:08:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17356#M3282 sbb 2010-10-15T10:08:35Z Re: exporting to stata with user-defined formats https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17357#M3283 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is still a problem. When will it be fixed?</P><P>S</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:08:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17357#M3283 Sticky 2014-09-22T00:08:49Z Re: exporting to stata with user-defined formats https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17358#M3284 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>How are you exporting to SPSS? </P><P></P><P>I think there's the SAV and the SPSS engines which operate differently. </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:23:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17358#M3284 Reeza 2014-09-22T02:23:59Z Re: exporting to stata with user-defined formats https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17359#M3285 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Its STATA but spss has the same problem.</P><P>S</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:16:33 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/exporting-to-stata-with-user-defined-formats/m-p/17359#M3285 Sticky 2014-09-25T22:16:33Z