SAS Macro catalogue conversion from 32 to 64 bit

[menaka_b]

Hi,

Could someone help me to convert a 32 bit windows SAS macro catalog file to 64 bit Windows?

Thanks

Menaka

[Kurt_Bremser]

Try exporting the catalog with proc cport on the 32-bit system and then importing with proc cimport on the 64-bit system.

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

You can't.  You would need to re-compile the catlog from source code.  This is one very good reason to never use compiled proprietary file formats - always use plain open file formats.  We have a whole load of old studies done by third parties, where because of "IP" they have compiled their macros to catalogs, and do not provide source.  We are stuck, and have to rebuild anything from them from scratch.  SAS provides no method of moving from 32 to 64 bit on catalogs/formats etc.

Again, and I can't say this strongly enough, use plain open file formats.  Text, CSV, XML, etc.  Datasets are not too bad obviously as there is little change across systems, but anything else...