Migrating 32-Bit SAS Files to 64-Bit SAS Files

Starting in SAS 9, SAS for the AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris operating environments is 64-bit only. Consequently, some SAS files (such as your SAS catalogs) that were created in 32-bit releases of SAS cannot be read by the V9 engine. You can read and write to your 32-bit SAS data sets, SAS/ACCESS views from Oracle or SYBASE, SQL views, or MDDB files from a 64-bit SAS session using CEDA. However, you cannot update these files. For more information, see "Migrating 32-Bit SAS Files to 64-Bit in UNIX Environments" on page 106.

You can use the MIGRATE procedure to convert all of your SAS files to 64-bit. For more information about the MIGRATE procedure, see the Migration Community at support.sas.com/rnd/migration .

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If you use Remote Library Services (RLS) to access SAS files on a server, see the SAS/CONNECT User's Guide for information about accessing Version 6 SAS files.