How to import sascatlog dataset

[Shyamkumar]

HI All,

Could you help out me pulling SAScatlog file to SAS dataeset.

[ballardw]

Catalogs are generally not going to make anything resembling a "data set".

The first step to what might be possible is to assign a library to where that file is located. Then try to open the catalog. Catalogs are specially formatted files and are SAS version sensitive. So you may not be able to even open that catalog.

What would expect to do with the "dataset" created from that catalog? From the name it almost certainly contains macro definitions and depending on options used when the macros were created may not be readable in any form.

[Kurt_Bremser]

This catalog contains compiled macros. Have a look at the DICTIONARY.MACROS table in PROC SQL (or the associated view SASHELP.VMACRO outside SQL).