Problem Note 52872: SAS® Version 604 data sets cannot be read with 64-bit releases of SAS®
The following error is generated if you attempt to read data sets with the V604 LIBNAME engine when you are running a 64-bit release of SAS:
ERROR: the variable name is illegal for the version 6 file LIB.DSET.DATA
This works correctly for 32-bit releases of SAS. There is no circumvention for the problem on 64-bit releases of SAS.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
*
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: | medium |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> LIBNAME Engines
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| Date Modified: | 2014-06-13 11:34:47 |
| Date Created: | 2014-05-01 11:39:33 |
