SAS7BDAT. This version was introduced in version 7 of SAS. Not sure of how many people outside of SAS every got a copy of 7 but that's when it came out.

SAS v9 uses the same format as far as I know and I have been using it for a long time (way before it was released to the community).

Anyone, please correct me if I am wrong on this history...

Alan

Alan Churchill Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" www.savian.net

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gerhard Hellriegel Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 7:58 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: remap sasv8 libs to sas9

Simply use the SAS 8 libs in SAS 9. I'm not aware of any incompatibilities. Has someone other experiences? Cheers and happy new year! Gerhard

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:13:01 +1100, gordon <gordononline@OPTUSNET.COM.AU> wrote:

>Hi > >First - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > >Second - I am trying to manage a migration from sas8 to sas9 in my agency. > >We run SAS for windows on a citrix platform and each user has a profile that >contains their individual settings and library mappings. > >I would like to make the process of moving to SAS9 as seamless as possible - >but I also dont want to take on the work of running many jobs for users to >achieve this. > >i was wondering if there is any process that you may know of that will allow >an automatic or a simple process for remapping of permanent SAS libraries >from SAS8 to SAS9? > >Thanks > >Doug