SAS/ACCESS Interface to CA-DATACOM/DB: Reference

Introduction

To use the SAS/ACCESS interface to CA-DATACOM/DB, you must define special files that describe CA-DATACOM/DB tables and data to the SAS System. These files are called SAS/ACCESS descriptor files. This chapter is a tutorial and uses examples to illustrate creating and editing these files, as well as using the ACCESS procedure to extract CA-DATACOM/DB data and place them in a SAS data file. (For complete reference information on the ACCESS procedure, see ACCESS Procedure Reference.)

The examples in this chapter are based on the CA-DATACOM/DB table named CUSTOMERS. (See Data and Descriptors for the Examples to review the data in this table.) You will create an access descriptor file named MYLIB.CUSTS for that table. Then, you will create two view descriptor files, VLIB.USACUST and VLIB.CUSTADD, based on the access descriptor. The next sections provide some background on access and view descriptor files.

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