Usage Note 15989: In the UNIX environment, SAS® data set names and external file names must be lowercase
In the UNIX environment, SAS writes data set names and external file names in all lowercase
characters. Because of this, SAS reads only data set names that
are written in all lowercase characters.
In addition to SAS data sets, the names of external files and included programs (*.sas) must be written in all lowercase characters. The names of the directories can have uppercase characters if the directory is defined in that manner.
Occasionally, customers use the UNIX utilities mv or cp to
rename SAS data set names to uppercase or mixed-case. When this
happens, SAS can no longer recognize the data set names.
Keep in mind that unlike Windows, UNIX is case-sensitive.
Therefore, a data set named xxx.sas7bdat is not the same as a
data set named XXX.sas7bdat, and in fact both of those data sets
could reside in the same directory as completely separate files.
The error received is similar to the following:
ERROR: File LIBREF.XXX.DATA does not exist.
where XXX is the name of the offending data set.
See
Usage Note 33772
for related information about the names of autocall macro .sas files
in the UNIX environment.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8 TS M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | |
| HP-UX | 8 TS M0 | |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8 TS M0 | |
| Solaris | 8 TS M0 | |
| IRIX | 8 TS M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8 TS M0 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8 TS M0 | |
| AIX | 8 TS M0 | |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing SAS Data
Common Programming Tasks
|
| Date Modified: | 2009-03-25 13:20:46 |
| Date Created: | 2005-08-19 17:36:01 |
