The ACCESS procedure creates SAS files of type ACCESS
and VIEW. These files are referred to as descriptor files because
they describe an
ADABAS
database to SAS.
An ACCESS file describes
the data in one
ADABAS file
or NATURAL Data Definition Module (DDM). The ACCESS file is a master
copy of all or part of a database definition.
You grant access to
the actual database by creating different views under the ACCESS file.
The VIEW files can identify a subset of the data described by the
ACCESS file. The data specified in a VIEW can be used in SAS in much
the same way that a SAS data file is used.