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CATALOG< CONTENTS>
<libref.>catalog-name;
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The CATALOG statement identifies the default SAS catalog
in which GISSPA, GISCOVER, GISLAYER, and GISMAP entries are stored when you
specify one-level catalog entry names in subsequent statements in the PROC
step.
Note: The CATALOG statement permanently
overrides the CATALOG= argument specified in the PROC GIS statement. If you
use the CATALOG= argument in the PROC GIS statement and then submit a CATALOG
statement, subsequent statements in the GIS procedure refer to the catalog
named in the CATALOG statement.
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CONTENTS displays information about the contents of
the specified catalog to the SAS Output window. If a catalog is not specified,
CONTENTS displays the contents of the current catalog.
<libref.>catalog-name specifies the
SAS catalog in which GISSPA, GISCOVER,
GISLAYER, and GISMAP entries referred to in subsequent statements in the PROC
GIS step are stored.
If the specified catalog does not already exist, it
is created when a subsequent SPATIAL, COVERAGE, LAYER, or MAP statement is
executed. If you omit the libref argument, the
default SAS data library, WORK, is assumed.
You can temporarily override the CATALOG statement by
specifying fully qualified (three-level) entry names in the SPATIAL, COVERAGE,
LAYER, and MAP statements. This does not reset the current default catalog.
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