Question

I am trying to import a excel file to a dataset using SAS, however the regular approach:

PROC IMPORT OUT= test.test
            DATAFILE= "M:/excelfile.xls"
            DBMS=EXCEL REPLACE;
     SHEET="Sheet1";
     GETNAMES=YES;
     MIXED=NO;
     SCANTEXT=YES;
     USEDATE=YES;
     SCANTIME=YES;
RUN;

only works on Windows.

Im using SAS 9.2 .. I tried different DBMS like XLS, EXCELCS with no luck…
I’ve been investing a lot of time on this I wanted to know if is possible..
I don’t have access to any other languages other than SAS ans SHELL (no PERL)

Is there anyway to accomplish what I’m looking for?

These are the installed base products

Operating System: AIX 64
—Base Product
—SAS/STAT

—SAS/GRAPH

—SAS/ETS
—SAS/OR —SAS/CONNECT
—SAS Integration Technologies
—OR OPT
—OR PRS
—OR IVS
—OR LSO
—SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2

Answer 1

I know this is late but for the record you should be able to import an xlsx (XML Excel data sheet) with SAS using the XML data engine and a custom XMLMAP which is provided by SAS support.

See the paper here http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi31/115-31.pdf for details of how to do this and where to get the XMLmap from.