SAS Catalogs and SAS Dataset Views

[vijayanand]

Hi,

Recently I had to migrate  some of the SAS CATALOGS (SAS7BCAT) and SAS VIEWS (SAS7VEW) from AIX to Linux server.

How do I ensure that these catalogs and sasviews  are same across AIX and Linux.

Can I use PROC COPARE to compare teh catalogs and sasviews.?

Thanks,

Vijay.

[SASKiwi]

PROC COMPARE can't be used with catalogs. What type of entries are in your catalogs?

For PROC COMPARE to work on views it would need to have access to both the AIX and linux versions at the same time which I suspect is not possible. What you could do is copy the datasets coming out of the views on AIX over to linux, then COMPARE that with the datasets created from the views on linux.

[vijayanand]

The catalog entries are mostly formats

[Ksharp]

Just copy SAS CATALOGS (SAS7BCAT) and SAS VIEWS (SAS7VEW)  into Linux ?

since aix and linux are both like-unix OP.

If you worry about this problem, try PROC CPORT and PROC CIMPORT

[ballardw]

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@Ksharp wrote:

Just copy SAS CATALOGS (SAS7BCAT) and SAS VIEWS (SAS7VEW)  into Linux ?

since aix and linux are both like-unix OP.

If you worry about this problem, try PROC CPORT and PROC CIMPORT

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And always make sure that you have the code to recreate the formats, or at least CNTLIN data sets for Proc Format to use to recreate if needed.