Using SAS Engines

Member Types Supported for V9, V8, and V7 Engines

The V9, V8, and V7 engines support files with the following member types:

ACCESS	ITEMSTOR
AUDIT	MDDB
BACKUP	PROGRAM
CATALOG	PUTILITY
DATA	SASODS
DMDB	UTILITY
FDB	VIEW
INDEX

Difference between SAS 9 and Previous Releases

The V9 engine differs slightly from previous SAS engines. These engines support long format and informat names. For more information about compatibility between releases, see SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

Note: Starting in SAS 9, SAS is a 64-bit application. Previous releases of SAS have been 32-bit. Consequently, the V9 engine cannot read the 32-bit SAS files (excluding files of member type DATA) that were created in previous versions of SAS. For more information, see Compatibility of Existing SAS Files with SAS 9.2. [cautionend]

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