The GDEVICE Procedure

RENAME Statement

Changes the name of the device entry to the name specified in the statement.

Requirements: You must have write access to the current catalog to rename a device entry, and use CATALOG= in the PROC GDEVICE statement.

Restriction: Not valid in browse mode.

RENAME device-entry
NEWNAME=new-entry-name;

Required Arguments

device-entry: specifies the one-level name of the device entry that you want to rename. The entry must exist in the current catalog.
NEWNAME=new-entry-name: specifies the new entry name. New-entry-name must be a valid name for a SAS catalog entry and cannot already exist in the current catalog. If the name already exists, the GDEVICE procedure issues an error message.

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Requirements:	You must have write access to the current catalog to rename a device entry, and use CATALOG= in the PROC GDEVICE statement.
Restriction:	Not valid in browse mode.