SAS/ACCESS Interface to ADABAS Software

Procedure Statements

To invoke the ACCESS procedure you use the options described in Options and certain procedure statements. The options and statements that you choose are determined by your task.

To create an access descriptor:

PROC ACCESS DBMS=ADABAS;

CREATE libref.member-name.ACCESS;

required database-description statements;

optional editing statements;

RUN;

To create an access descriptor and a view descriptor:

PROC ACCESS DBMS=ADABAS;

CREATE libref.member-name.ACCESS;

required database-description statements;

optional editing statements;

CREATE libref.member-name.VIEW;

SELECT item-list;

optional editing statements;

RUN;

To create a view descriptor from an existing access descriptor:

PROC ACCESS DBMS=ADABAS ACCDESC=libref.access-descriptor;

CREATE libref.member-name.VIEW;

SELECT item-list;

optional editing statements;

RUN;
To update an access descriptor:

PROC ACCESS DBMS=ADABAS;

UPDATE libref.member-name.ACCESS;

procedure statements;

RUN;
To update a view descriptor:

PROC ACCESS DBMS=ADABAS;

UPDATE libref.member-name.VIEW;

procedure statements;

RUN;

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