SAS Companion for the OS/390 Environment

Using Version 6 and Version 5 Engines

The V6 and V6TAPE engines supplied with SAS Version 8 support full access (read, write, and create) to all SAS Version 6 data libraries. The V6 and V6TAPE engines take the same options as the V8 and V8TAPE engines.

Note that data sets created under SAS Release 6.06 cannot be processed by SAS Version 8 because their storage format differs from that used in subsequent releases of SAS Version 6. To make a SAS 6.06 data set available for processing in Version 8, first use a later release of SAS Version 6 (6.07, 6.08, or 6.09) to copy the 6.06 data set to a new data set, either in the same library or in a new library. You can copy the data set into a 6.06 library because all library formats are supported in Version 8. The newly copied data set automatically receives the new Version 6 format, which allows the new data set to be processed by the V6 or V6TAPE engine in SAS Version 8.

The V5 and V5TAPE engines in SAS Version 8 support read-only access to SAS Version 5 data libraries. For information on V5 and V5TAPE engines, see Appendix 1 of SAS Companion for the MVS Environment, Version 6, Second Edition .

For information about the portable features of the SAS that are supported by these engines, see SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

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