I need to move my files from Windows -> Linux. Same version of SAS (9.4 TS1M5).
When I run proc cport, I am getting the message:
ERROR: The variable name wk_net7_start is illegal for the version 6 file DEST.DATES.DATA.
NOTE: Set the VALIDVARNAME=V6 option to enable automatic truncation of long variable names.
How can I prepare the files for transfer without any naming truncation?
Turns out the problem was with my code. I had:
proc cport library=source out=dest;
run;
... instead of...
proc cport library=source file=dest;
run;
Simple mistake to make (difficult to debug) as I previously was trying xport which uses the former convention.
Do you have some actual SAS version 6 data sets? That is what the error implies. In those data sets variable names are limited to 8 characters. You may need to look at the definition of the libraries involved.
As a minimum it might not hurt to show the actual code along with the error from log.
Turns out the problem was with my code. I had:
proc cport library=source out=dest;
run;
... instead of...
proc cport library=source file=dest;
run;
Simple mistake to make (difficult to debug) as I previously was trying xport which uses the former convention.
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