StandardSASReferences

The StandardSASReferences metadata data set specifies a set of library and file records that are used by most processes that are provided with the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit implementation of each standard. It contains references to those libraries and files that are installed with each standard that SAS provides. A standard-specific StandardSASReferences data set exists for each SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit data standard that is supported by SAS. For example, the CDISC SDTM 3.1.2 StandardSASReferences data set can be found at:

The type and subtype values are discussed in the following section. The SASref value is the default value that is used in the library and filename allocation process. This value can be overwritten by the user. The path value represents the global standards library subdirectory, which is relative to the rootpath location that is specified in the standard-specific Standards data set.

The cross-standard global standards library StandardSASReferences data set that is provided with the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit can be found at:

This data set contains the concatenation of each StandardSASReferences data set that is provided for each supported standard in the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit. The only enhancement to the data set during concatenation is that the path column is populated with the full global standards library path for each record. The following display shows the content for the CDISC SDTM StandardSASReferences data set that is described in Metadata/StandardSASReferences Data Set Content in the Global Standards Library.In the display, &_cstGRoot maps to the <global standards library directory> that is set by calling the cstutil_setcstgroot macro.

The structure of the StandardSASReferences data set is the same structure for all SASReferences data sets that are provided and used by the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit. This structure is described in SASReferences.