30646 - The SHEET= and RANGE= options are now available in the EXPORT procedure when you use SAS/ACCESS® Interface to PC Files 9.1.3 in the UNIX environment

Usage Note 30646: The SHEET= and RANGE= options are now available in the EXPORT procedure when you use SAS/ACCESS® Interface to PC Files 9.1.3 in the UNIX environment

SAS^® 9.1.3, Service Pack 3 enables you to use the IMPORT and EXPORT procedures with the DBMS=XLS option in SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files in order to read from and write to Excel workbooks that reside locally under UNIX. You can also use the SHEET= option in PROC IMPORT in SAS 9.1.3. However, the option does not work in PROC EXPORT.

Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

The hot fix enables you to deal with locally residing Excel workbooks by using the SHEET= option for the IMPORT and EXPORT procedures and the RANGE= option for PROC IMPORT only. These options enable you to read from and write to, respectively, specific spreadsheets and parts of spreadsheets.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files	Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux on Itanium	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4

* 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.

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_prod_list.html#030646

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_dbcs_prod_list.html#030646

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Date Modified:	2009-04-30 15:45:47
Date Created:	2007-11-29 11:07:42