topic Re: Regarding Error in migration in SAS Procedures

Regarding Error in migration

anilgvdbm — Fri, 23 May 2014 05:32:57 GMT

Dear All ,

I got an error when i am processing SAS version 6 files in SAS version 9 software.

Error is like this

NFHS3.CHIL_BMI.DATA is a Version 6 data set. In future releases of SAS you may not be

able to create or update Version 6 data sets. Use PROC MIGRATE to convert the data set to

Version 9.

ERROR: The variable name Ht_A_pctl is illegal for the version 6 file NFHS3.CHIL_BMI.DATA.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

WARNING: The data set NFHS3.CHIL_BMI was only partially opened and will not be saved.

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.03 seconds

cpu time 0.03 seconds

Please can anybody help in this.

Thanks and Regards,

Anil

Re: Regarding Error in migration

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 23 May 2014 05:47:23 GMT

Please provide the offending code, it makes it much easier to find the right answer. Just supplying the error message without a log containig the offending code is usually not helpful.

The probable reason for your error is that you try to write a dataset in the library containing the V6 dataset. Since this library uses the V6 engine, you have to adhere to V6 naming conventions, which means that variable names must not exceed 8 characters. Ht_A_pctl contains 9 characters.

Re: Regarding Error in migration

Ksharp — Sat, 24 May 2014 11:04:04 GMT

NFHS3.CHIL_BMI.DATA is a Version 6 data set. In future releases of SAS you may not be

able to create or update Version 6 data sets. Use PROC MIGRATE to convert the data set to

Version 9.

But I didn't guarantee that could work.

Xia Keshan