Local and Remote Access to Data
To
access data, you must register the data as a library in SAS Management
Console. The procedures for accessing data and registering data are
explained later in this document. However, one of the important details
for file-based data, such as SAS data sets, is that you need to specify
the file system path to the data. This path is needed so that a SAS Application
Server can access it. As shown in the following figure, SAS data sets
that are local to the SAS Application Server have a fully qualified
path such as
C:\data\sourcetables:
Often, file-based data
is stored on a host that is remote from the SAS Application Server.
When the hosts have a network path for shared directories such as
a Windows UNC path or UNIX NFS, that path is used. The following figure
shows an example of a SAS Workspace Server accessing a UNC path,
\\dataserver\sourcetables,
on a data server.
