See the reply of Maggiem   Proc migrate is encapsulating some more basic SAS routines. You are really needing SAS/Connect or SAS/Share as thye are doing the real conversion. Could you use notepad++ to convert catalogs? Same kind of answer, yes . The real thing:  you can code you SAS-source in notpad++ so SAS/connect SAS/share will do the conversion. Whatever you do, you must have SAS/Connect or SAS/Share. Having SAS/connect available and you have only some catalog to migrate (upload/download) than it is easy to do that. The biggest advantage you can have with SAS/connect is you can have both versions alive and supported  as it can also downgrade catalogs 64->32bit. Proc cport/cimport will not work due tp bitness, that is why Proc migrate is using SAS/share SAS/connect    ... View more