SAS/CONNECT User's Guide

Example 2. Compute Services: Administration Tasks for Remote Data Sets

Purpose

While working on a local host, you can use compute services to perform administration tasks on remote data sets.

Program

This example administers password protection to the TASKLIST data set and backs up a data set that is named CURRENT.

rsubmit;
   proc datasets lib=tsolib;
      /**************************************/
      /* Add password SESAME to remote      */
      /* data set TASKLIST.                 */
      /**************************************/
   modify tasklist (alter=sesame);
   run;

      /**************************************/
      /* Maintain a week's worth of backup  */
      /* copies of data set CURRENT.        */
      /**************************************/
   age current backup1 - backup7;
   run;
   quit;
endrsubmit;

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