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 is located here:
global standards library directory/standards/cdisc-sdtm-3.1.2-1.7/control/standardsasreferences.sas7bdat
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. You can overwrite this value. The
path value
contains a relative path. The
relpathprefix value
rootpath
instructs
the code to use the rootpath location that is specified in the standard-specific
Standards data set.
The resolved
path is shown in Metadata/StandardSASReferences Data Set in the Global Standards Library (CDISC SDTM
3.1.2 Excerpt).
The cross-standard global
standards library StandardSASReferences data set that is provided
with the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit is located here:
global standards library directory/metadata/standardsasreferences.sas7bdat
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 following enhancements are the only enhancements to the data set
during concatenation:
-
the path column
is resolved to the full global standards library path for each record,
based on the relpathprefix value
-
the relpathprefix column
is reset to null
The structure of all
StandardSASReferences data sets is the same for all standards provided
with the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit.
This
structure is described in SASReferences.