The MIGRATE Procedure

Example 6: Alternatives to PROC MIGRATE

PROC MIGRATE is not supported for libraries that were created under the following source environments:

SAS 8.2 CMS, OS/2, OpenVMS VAX, or 64-bit AIX.
any unsupported SAS 6 operating environment. For a list of supported SAS 6 operating environments, see Migrating a SAS 6 Library.

To migrate across operating environments that cannot use PROC MIGRATE, use the following process:

Under the source installation of SAS, use one of the conversion procedures, PROC COPY, PROC CPORT or PROC UPLOAD, to create a transport file containing your source library. See Moving and Accessing SAS Files.
Under the target installation of SAS, use PROC COPY, PROC CIMPORT or PROC DOWNLOAD to convert the transport file to a SAS 9 library.