Error in PROC EXPORT

[GreggB]

I'm running SAS 9.4 on a 64 bit PC (Windows 8.1 Pro).

Code I'm submitting:

proc export data=cluster_snapshot outfile="G:\Departments\Research\test scores\act\yr2.\State Test Reporting\reports\SCDE Release by School\20&yr2. ACT SCDE Release for Cluster Snapshots.xlsb"
dbms=excelcs replace;
run;

Error Message I'm getting:

ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver]General error
Unable to open registry key Temporary (volatile) Ace DSN for process 0x1e54 Thread 0x1554
DBC 0x2c276c4 Excel'.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.
Connection Failed. See log for details.
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: PROCEDURE EXPORT used (Total process time):
real time 3.88 seconds
cpu time 0.20 seconds

I run proc export a lot and have never gotten this error.

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

Try DBMS=XLSX and using XLSX instead of xlsb?

I will note that I didn't get an error using SAS 9.4 TS1M3 (64 bit) on Windows 7 using your exact code.

1    proc export data=sashelp.class outfile="C:\_LOCALdata\temp\temp.xlsb"
2    dbms=excelcs replace;
3    run;

NOTE: "CLASS" range/sheet was successfully created.
NOTE: PROCEDURE EXPORT used (Total process time):
      real time           4.78 seconds
      cpu time            0.12 seconds

[ballardw]

Look at the bolded part of your code:

="G:\Departments\Research\test scores\act\yr2.\State Test Reporting\reports\SCDE Release by School\20&yr2. ACT SCDE Release for Cluster Snapshots.xlsb"

Is that first yr2. supposed to be the same &yr2. ?

the error is likely that the path you resolve to without the macro complains about the . in the path.

[GreggB]

That macro variable was not a global variable. I fixed it and it works fine.  Thanks!