SASEFAME Engine

The SASEFAME interface engine provides a seamless interface between Fame and SAS data to enable SAS users to access and process time series, case series, and formulas that reside in a Fame database. The following enhancements have been made to the SASEFAME access engine for Fame databases:

• The INSET= option enables you to pass Fame commands through an input SAS data set and select your Fame input variables by using the KEEPLIST= clause or the WHERE= clause as selection input for BY variables.

• The DBVERSION= option displays the version number of the Fame Work data base in the SAS log. SASEFAME uses Fame 10, which does not allow version 2 databases. Use the Fame compress utility with the -m option to convert your version 2 databases to version 3 or 4. The default is version 4.

• The TUNEFAME= option tunes the Fame database engine’s use of memory to reduce I/O times in favor of a bigger virtual memory for caching database objects. The default is 100 MB.

• The TUNECHLI= option tunes the C host language interface (CHLI) database engine’s use of memory to reduce I/O times in favor of a bigger virtual memory for caching database objects. The default is 100 MB.

• The WILDCARD= option enables you to select series by using the new Fame 10 wildcarding capabilities which allow a longer 242-character wildcard to match data object series names within the Fame database.

• The interface uses the most current version of Fame 10 CHLI. The SAS log reports the version number of the Fame 10 CHLI:

  NOTE: The SASEFAME engine is using Version 10.03 of the HLI.