How Do I import a sas7bdat file to sas university edition

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:
SAS University Edition was discontinued nearly a year ago. This was a copy of SAS in a Virtual Machine container that you downloaded to your own machine. Since the product stopped working, I don't think you have SAS University Edition in a Virtual Machine anymore. Do you perhaps have SAS OnDemand for Academics, which you use by signing onto the welcome.oda.sas.com web site??? If so, then you don't need to "import" a .sas7bdat file into SAS because that file extension already implies that you have a SAS data set. You will need to upload the sas7bdat file to your /home folder on the SAS OnDemand for Academics server. If you click on the Server Files and Folders pane in SAS Studio on the left side of the screen, look for Files (Home) as the top folder that represents your storage location. You can make a subfolder under that folder then right click the subfolder name and choose Upload. If you upload your SAS file to the new subfolder, you should be able to run a SAS program to read the file without needing an import step.
Cynthai

[Kurt_Bremser]

Create a subdirectory in your Home folder on SAS On Demand, and upload the file there. Make sure that the name of the file is all lowercase.

Say you named the directory "xxx", then issue this:

libname mylib "~/xxx";

and you can access your dataset under the MYLIB library in Libraries.