Can I use my old SAS7BCAT catalog files in Altair SLC?

Nico Chart_21517

Altair SLC is able to read/write SAS7BDAT data set files but not SAS7BCAT catalog files.

Altair SLC catalogs are saved into WPCCAT files.

If you have access to the SAS language code that was used to compile the catalog, then that can be used to generate the equivalent Altair SLC catalog files.

Alternatively, if you have access to SAS then you can run SAS and use the FORMAT procedure with CNTLOUT to extract the formats from the catalog into an intermediate data set, and then you can proceed to run Altair SLC and to use the FORMAT procedure with CNTLIN to import that intermediate data into into a Altair SLC catalog library.

wwvierg

Hi Nico:

Am reading this in 10/2025 :-)

I do have a giant SAS Proc format program that creates my standard FMTLIB.

If I run it it WPS require any special libname statement (like SAS "library" libname), and/or once I run it, how do I reference the wpccat file going forward; again, any special libname statement?

TIA

P.S. here's the beginning of one of my FMTLIB jobs:

*******************************************************************************;

FMTLIB: Format lib for misc. Medi-Cal data tapes.

*******************************************************************************;
*-- define options & output file destinations ;
options nocenter ls = 177 ps = 60 noxwait errors = 2 date ;
libname library v9 'E:\medi-cal' ;

*-- let's format all the stuff needed for the Medicaid summary paid claims tapes ;
proc format library = library ;