Moving and Accessing SAS Files across Operating Environments

Advantages of CEDA

The user can transparently read a data set with no conscious concern or knowledge about the native format of the file.
System performance is maximized because a read operation requires a single translation between native and non-native formats versus a translation from native format to transport format to native format.
No interim transport files are created.
CEDA eliminates the need to perform explicit steps in order to access the file.
CEDA does not require a dedicated server as does SAS/SHARE or an explicit sign on to a remote host as does SAS/CONNECT.
The internal numeric representation provided by CEDA is more precise than that provided by the XPORT engine with PROC COPY. CEDA uses a one-step translation from the native format of the source host to the native format of the target host, whereas the XPORT engine uses a two-step transformation from a file's native format to the target host format by means of transport format.