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Accessing SAS Files from Other Hosts

How you access SAS files stored on a different host depends on whether

Accessing SAS Files from Non-UNIX Hosts

With Cross-Environment Data Access (CEDA), Version 7 files created in any operating environment can be read in any other operating environment. Cross-Environment Data Access is a feature of SAS/CONNECT software; you must have SAS/CONNECT software installed at your site to use CEDA.

CEDA provides only read access to Version 7 data sets. To write to a Version 7 data set or to read or write to a Version 6 data set on a remote non-UNIX host computer, use SAS/CONNECT software to establish a communication link between your local SAS session and a remote SAS session on the other host. After you have established a link, you can remote-submit SAS statements to process the data on the remote host computer, or you can download the data set to a Version 7 data set on your host. For more information about SAS/CONNECT software and CEDA, see SAS/CONNECT User's Guideand Communications Access Methods for SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE Software.

As an alternative, you can create a transport data set from the data set on the remote host and then copy the file (as a binary file) to your host. Use the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures or the XPORT engine to write and read transport files. For more information on transporting SAS files, see Moving and Accessing SAS Files across Operating Environments.

Accessing SAS Files from Other UNIX Hosts

Among Hewlett-Packard, SUN, and RS 6000, all Version 7 catalogs and data sets are interchangable. A Version 7 catalog or data set created on one of these hosts can be moved to another of these hosts without using the CPORT or CIMPORT procedures.

Between SUN and RS 6000, all Version 7 catalogs are interchangable, but catalogs created on RS 6000 hosts cannot be read by the other hosts. Use the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures to move catalogs from RS 6000 to other UNIX hosts.

Please contact your SAS Installation Representative for information about copying SAS files between other UNIX hosts.


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