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

2. 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_3 1102 DATAFILE= "&loc.\CCR System Reference Tables 2012.xls" 1103 DBMS=excel replace; 1104 SHEET="ICD-O-2 & 3 Topography codes"; 1105 1106 RUN; ERROR: Connect: Class not registered ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement. (Similarly for the ‘File/Import Data’ wizard)

3. Resolution Google error message, first hit is http://support.sas.com/kb/43/933.html Which refers to ‘PC Files Server’ Google ‘sas PC Files Server’ http://support.sas.com/kb/43/802.html Install and make the following changes to your program

4. resolution 1107 PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK.topo_2_3 1108 DATAFILE= "&loc\CCR System Reference Tables 2012.xls" 1109 DBMS=excelCS REPLACE; 1110 SHEET="ICD-O-2 & 3 Topography codes"; 1111 1112 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)

5. 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