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The Output Delivery System (ODS) functionality in SAS language programs is used to create formatted output in different file types such as PDF or RTF. You can use ODS absolute layout functionality to arrange blocks of text, graphics and procedure output side-by-side on a PDF page. Absolute layouts provide greater…
SAS language programs can read information from and write information to a variety of different file types, including SAS-language datasets and other files, database tables, IBM z/OS VSAM files, text files (including comma-separated values files) and so on. The LIBNAME global statement can be used to specify a SAS language…
The SAS language can read information from, and write information to, a variety of different file types, including SAS-language datasets, database tables, IBM z/OS VSAM files, text files (including comma-separated values files) and so on. This article only describes how to use the LIBNAME global statement to specify a…
When processing data on a database in your SAS language programs, you might find it useful to have the control of processing tables on a database or on your local machine. Altair SLC enables this control in the SQL procedure through either Implicit passthrough or Explicit passthrough. * * Implicit passthrough uses the SQL…
Files that do not use the WPD format are regarded as external files. Files in the WPD format have the extension .wpd. Examples of external files are flat text files and comma-separated variable files. External files can be specified using operating system pathnames, or using a filename reference. A filename reference is…
The Introduction to the DATA step article describes the general structure of the DATA step. Various statements can be used in the DATA step that enable you to read and write data, format data, manipulate data, control the order of execution of statements in the DATA step, and so on. The format of the DATA step is as…
The article Introduction to the DATA step: Reading from and writing to databases described how to access databases from the DATA step. This article discusses how you can read data from and write data to other types of files. To read and write external files, such as text files, you specify the name and location of the…
The articles Introduction to the DATA step and Introduction to the DATA step statements introduced the DATA step and describe using it with datasets. This article discusses how you can input data from, and output data to, other types of files. The DATA step can be used to read and write data using many types of file,…
The DATA step is one element of a computer program written in the SAS language; other elements include global statements, procedure steps and macros. A SAS language program does not require a DATA step – you can create a valid program using only other elements of the language, such as macro statements or procedures. The…
A DATA step view is a DATA step that has been saved in a format that enables it to be run and used as a data source by other DATA steps or procedures. The data output by the DATA step view is read as if it is a dataset. There are many reasons you might want to use a DATA step view. You can use DATA step views to create…
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