Issues and Problems in Migrating to Version 7 and beyond

Version 7, 8 and 9 SAS Data Sets and Catalogs not usable in

Version 6.12 and earlier

Converting Old SAS Data Sets (Version 6.08 through 6.12)

to Version 7 or later

Converting Version 7, 8 or 9 SAS Data Sets

to Version 6.12 (cannot be done in Version 9 under UNIX)

Using 6.04 (.ssd) SAS Data Sets in Version 7 and later

Converting Old FSEdit Catalogs (Screens)

to Version 7 or later

ARRAY statement syntax in PROC PHREG has changed

SAS Under UNIX only available in X-Window Mode, not

character-based (telnet, ASCII) windows