Overview of the SAS/ACCESS Interface to IMS

Purpose of the SAS/ACCESS Interface to IMS

SAS/ACCESS software provides an interface between SAS and the IMS database management system (DBMS). You can perform the following tasks with this SAS/ACCESS interface:

Create SAS/ACCESS descriptor files using the ACCESS procedure.
Directly access data in IMS databases from a SAS program using the view descriptor files created with the ACCESS procedure.
Extract data from IMS databases and place it in a SAS data file using the ACCESS procedure, the DATA step, or other SAS procedures.
Update, insert, or delete data in IMS databases using the SQL procedure, SAS/FSP software, the APPEND procedure, or the MODIFY statement. The MODIFY statement can be used with the IMS interface view engine, and supports REPLACE, DELETE, and INSERT calls.
Issue DL/I calls to update, insert, and delete data in IMS databases using the DATA step interface's INFILE, INPUT, FILE, and PUT statements.

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