To use the
SAS/ACCESS interface to
CA-Datacom/DB, you must define special files
that describe
CA-Datacom/DB
tables and data to SAS. These files are called
SAS/ACCESS descriptor files. This section uses
examples to illustrate creating and editing these files, as well as
using the ACCESS procedure to extract
CA-Datacom/DB data and place it in a
SAS data file. (For reference information about the ACCESS procedure, see
Introduction to ACCESS Procedure Reference .)
The examples in this
section are based on the
CA-Datacom/DB table named Customers. (See
Data and Descriptors for the Examples to review the data in this table.) The examples create an
access descriptor file named MyLib.Custs for that table. Then, the examples create two
view descriptor files, Vlib.UsaCust and Vlib.CustAdd, based on the access descriptor.