The LIBNAME engine supports the DataFlux Federation
Server data types by translating their definition to and from predetermined
legacy SAS data types, which are SAS numeric and SAS character. For
example, when you use the LIBNAME engine, the CONTENTS procedure reports
the DataFlux Federation Server DATE data type as a SAS numeric.
A SAS numeric is a DOUBLE
data type, which stores a 64-bit double-precision, floating point
number. A SAS character is a CHAR data type, which stores a fixed-length
character string from 1 to 32,767 bytes.
For complete information
about the DataFlux Federation Server data types and the data types
that are available for data storage in each data source, see the
DataFlux
Federation Server Administrator’s Guide.