Usage Note 49468: "ACCESS (or EXCEL) engine cannot be found" errors occur when you try to import and export to Excel and Access files with SAS® 9.2 and 64-bit Office
When exporting data to Excel and Access files with a 64-bit version of SAS 9.2 and 64-bit Office, you might receive the following message:
ERROR: The ACCESS (or EXCEL) engine cannot be found.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement
The problem occurs because, in SAS 9.2, the EXCEL and ACCESS engines are 32-bit. To resolve the problem, do one of the following:
- Use SAS® 9.3 instead of 9.2. (The 64-bit engines are available in SAS 9.3.)
- Use SAS/ACCESS® Interface to ODBC to read the files with a LIBNAME statement. Here is an example. The DBQ parameter points to the location of the files.
For Microsoft Excel, use this LIBNAME statement:
libname myxls odbc required=
"Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)};
DBQ=c:\sastest\mynew.xlsb;READONLY=FALSE";
For Microsoft Access, use this LIBNAME statement:
libname myacc odbc required=
"Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};
DBQ=c:\sastest\mycars1.accdb";
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
*
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.
When using SAS version 9.2 to export to Excel and Access files with 64-bit Office, you might receive an "engine not found" message.
| Date Modified: | 2013-03-26 15:00:53 |
| Date Created: | 2013-03-20 14:51:31 |
