If you want to create a new library with an engine other than the default engine, you can override the automatic selection. You use the V7 engine to create SAS data libraries on disk and to read from, ...

The V7 engine is identical to the V8 engine. SAS identifies V7 libraries and members thereof as having the V8 engine format. Members created with the V7 and V8 engines may coexist in the same library.