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 is located here:
global standards library directory/standards/cdisc-sdtm-3.1.2-1.7/control/standardsasreferences.sas7bdat
Metadata/StandardSASReferences Data Set Content in the Global Standards Library
Sample of records in the global standards library StandardSASReferences data set
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 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:
Metadata/StandardSASReferences Data Set in the Global Standards Library (CDISC SDTM 3.1.2 Excerpt)
Contents of the StandardSASReferences data set
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.