You can manually change
the values for the destination location each time you import data.
However, you can also set new default values that will be in effect
for each subsequent import. Use caution when changing these values
because the import has predefined values in the SASHELP.GISIMP data
set that are needed for the import to complete.
The SASHELP.GISIMP data
set supplies values that you need to import your spatial data. Included
in this data set are two variables, DEFMLIB and DEFSLIB, which are
used to supply the default values for the Map Entries Library and
the Spatial Data Sets Library. To specify different default values,
complete the following steps:
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Open the SASHELP.GISIMP
data set (you must have Write access to the SASHELP library).
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Change the values of
the DEFMLIB and the DEFSLIB variables.
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Change the values of
the DEFMLIB variable to the libref for the library that you want to
use as the default for the map entries.
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Change the value of
the DEFSLIB variable to the libref for the library that you want to
use as the default for the spatial data sets.
-
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Open the
GIS Spatial Data Importing window again.
If the specified library
does not exist, an error message is issued, and the name SASUSER is
substituted for the libref.
If you do not have Write
access to the SASHELP library, and you want to change the default
values for the DEFMLIB and DEFSLIB variables, then copy the SASHELP.GISIMP
data set to an allocated library to which you do have Write access.
Change the values and save the data set as described above. Before
you open the
GIS Spatial Data Importing window,
you must assign the new location of the GISIMP data set to the macro
variable
USER_FIL. For example, if you copy
the SASHELP.GISIMP data set to your SASUSER library, submit the following
statement:
%LET USER_FIL=SASUSER.GISIMP;
If you want to use the
default values for a particular import without having to modify the
SASUSER.GISIMP data set, you can reset the USER_FIL macro variable
to the default SASHELP.GISIMP data set. For example:
%LET USER_FIL=SASHELP.GISIMP;
The import will use
the values in the data set that the USER_FIL macro variable points
to.