SAS Companion for the OS/390 Environment

Introduction

The following read-only engines enable you to access files that were created with other vendors' software as if those files were written by the SAS System:

BMDP accesses system files that were created with BMDP Statistical Software.

SPSS accesses SPSS files that were created under Release 9 of SPSS as well as SPSS-X system files and portable files.

OSIRIS accesses OSIRIS files.

You can use these engines in any SAS applications or procedures that do not require random access. For example, by using one of the engines with PROC CONTENTS and its _ALL_ option, you can determine the contents of an entire SPSS file at once.

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BMDP	accesses system files that were created with BMDP Statistical Software.
SPSS	accesses SPSS files that were created under Release 9 of SPSS as well as SPSS-X system files and portable files.
OSIRIS	accesses OSIRIS files.