ERROR: Cannot create PROC FORMAT style format with the same name as an Institute-supplied format

[xiaolufan]

Dear all,

When I tried to import the dataset, there is an error keep showing, which is:

ERROR: Cannot create PROC FORMAT style format with the same name as an Institute-supplied format

I was also tried to remove the previous format, but it still does not working.

Here is my log file:

(I use the University edition)

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

55

56 proc import datafile ='/folders/myfolders/project/09836-0002-Data/'

57 dbms=sav

58 out=dataset2

59 replace;

60 run;

ERROR: Cannot create PROC FORMAT style format with the same name as an Institute-supplied format

NOTE: The import data set has 10258 observations and 495 variables.

NOTE: WORK.DATASET2 data set was successfully created.

NOTE: PROCEDURE IMPORT used (Total process time):

real time 1.21 seconds

cpu time 0.80 seconds

61

62 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

Can anyone help me to solve this problem, I will be appreciate.

[Reeza]

Interesting, I wonder if there's a way to get around this.  

This may be one option:

Option nofmterr; 

And/or try using DBMS=SPSS instead of SAV

This seems to be the current standard. 

And lastly, try specifying a format library. 

See example 3 here:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acpcref/67382/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1h6b01uh0dm2yn1fp...