If this were my project I would be strongly tempted to either rename in place as per @LinusH and if not practical as others use the data sets to make copies and rename the variables. A control data set with the name of the original dataset, new data set, original variable name and new or corrected data set name in data set would let you use a data step with call execute to copy the original data to the new set and then rename the variables.
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