| SAS Companion for the OpenVMS Environment |
In
order to access an individual SAS file in Version 6 of
the SAS System, you had to first assign a libref or an OpenVMS logical name
to the SAS data library. You could then refer to individual SAS files as libref.member
(or logical-name.member),
where member
is the filename of the individual SAS file.
In Version 7, you can still use librefs or logical names
as a convenient way of referring to a SAS data library in SAS programs. However,
you can also fully specify individual SAS files in most SAS statements and
procedures that access SAS files. If portable SAS code is an issue, then using
librefs is the recommended method.
Although
you can use an OpenVMS logical name
to identify a SAS data library to the SAS System, you may want to use a SAS
libref instead for the following reasons:
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