Bridging (Closing) the “bitness gap” in Sas 9.4 Ron Dewar Dalhousie U. and Cancer Care NS

Problem 9.4 is 64-bit (requires 64-bit Windows 7) MS-Office tools are installed as 32-bit aps A simple proc import that ‘used to work’ now returns an error message: 1101 PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.topo_2_ DATAFILE= "&loc.\CCR System Reference Tables 2012.xls" 1103 DBMS=excel replace; 1104 SHEET="ICD-O-2 & 3 Topography codes"; RUN; ERROR: Connect: Class not registered ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement. (Similarly for the ‘File/Import Data’ wizard)

Resolution Google error message, first hit is Which refers to ‘PC Files Server’ Google ‘sas PC Files Server’ Install and make the following changes to your program

resolution 1107 PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.topo_2_ DATAFILE= "&loc\CCR System Reference Tables 2012.xls" 1109 DBMS=excelCS REPLACE; 1110 SHEET="ICD-O-2 & 3 Topography codes"; RUN; NOTE: WORK.TOPO_2_3 data set was successfully created. … ALSO: ‘PC Files Server’ appears as a ‘Standard Data Source’ to the ‘File/Import Data’ wizard (which will now work)

Similarly: Incompatible Format libraries ERROR: File CANC.FORMATS.CATALOG was created for a different operating system. Recreate the format library with a different name proc format lib = library.formats64; Format search option now looks like proc format ; options fmtsearch = (library.formats64 ); … then you can co-exist with your 32-bit colleagues until they all see the light