To create and edit access and
view descriptor files, you must issue the PROC ACCESS statement with options and procedure statements.
The statement has this format:
PROC ACCESS <options>;
required-procedure-statements;
optional-procedure-statements;
Depending on which options
you choose, the ACCESS procedure performs several tasks. To create
and edit access and view descriptors, use the following options:
ACCDESC=libref.access-descriptor
specifies the name of an access descriptor.
ACCDESC= is used with the DBMS= option to create a view descriptor that is based on the specified
access descriptor. You specify the view descriptor's name in the CREATE statement.
You can also use
a
data set option on the
ACCDESC=
option to specify any passwords that have been assigned to the access
descriptor. The access descriptor that you name must exist.
The
ACCDESC= option has two aliases: AD= and ACCESS=.
The following options enable you to extract IMS data with a view descriptor:
VIEWDESC=<libref.>view-descriptor
specifies the name of the view descriptor from which to extract the
IMS data.
OUT=<libref.>member-name
specifies the SAS data file to which DBMS data is written. OUT= is used only with
the VIEWDESC= option.