Moving And Accessing Sas 9.1 Files

Discover how you can choose from among multiple strategies to easily moveor access SAS(R) files across operating environments. In this guide youlearn how to use CEDA, the preferred strategy for file access across anetwork. CEDA enables you to transparently read a network-mounted SAS filefrom any directory-based operating environment that runs SAS Version 8 orlater, regardless of the file format of the SAS file; dynamically convertdata between the native formats of the source and target operatingenvironments; and change the SAS file to the format of the accessingoperating environment. You can also learn how to use the traditional methodof moving a SAS file across operating environments by creating a transportfile that will be restored at the target machine to transfer across anetwork. PROC CPORT, PROC CIMPORT, PROC COPY, and the XPORT engine are usedto accomplish a traditional move operation. Starting in SAS 9, anothermethod of moving a SAS data set across operating environments is to use theXML engine to convert the file to an XML document. At the target machine,the data can be restored as a SAS data set for continued access. Theinformation presented in this title does not apply to SAS releases prior to6.07. .SAS Publishing Staff is the author of 'Moving And Accessing Sas 9.1 Files', published 2004 under ISBN 9781590472309 and ISBN 1590472306.