Problem Note 41767: Import:List Window blank when importing an external file using EFI and User-Defined Formats
Using EFI and selecting User-Defined Formats to read an external file will return incorrect results. After doing a FILE-IMPORT DATA to invoke EFI, and providing the location of the external file, the name of the SAS data and clicking FINISH, the IMPORT:LIST window will appear.
Normally, you would see a sample of your external file in the FROM panel (left) and what your SAS data set will look like in the TO panel (right) after modifying the options in the OPTIONS window.
Beginning in SAS 9.2 TS2M2 the FROM window is blank regardless of whether you modify the options in the OPTION window or not. The circumvention at this time is to use either PROC IMPORT or IMPORT WIZARD to read the external file.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS2M2 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
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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: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Common Programming Tasks ==> Reading and Writing External Data ==> EFI
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| Date Modified: | 2011-01-18 15:44:19 |
| Date Created: | 2010-12-06 15:29:01 |
