SASECRSP Interface Engine

The SASECRSP interface engine for SAS/ETS 13.1 supports Linux X64 (64-bit), Solaris Sun Ultra Sparc, Solaris on Intel x86, and Windows.

CRSP/Compustat Merged Databases are no longer supported by SASECRSP because the CRSP API no longer supports the legacy access routines for the CCM legacy database.

The SASEXCCM interface should be used instead of the SASECRSP interface to access Xpressfeed CCM data. The SASEXCCM interface provides data item handling access methods by using CRSPAccess, version 3.23. For a detailed description of this new ETS interface engine, see Chapter 40: The SASEXCCM Interface Engine.

Because CRSPAccess, version 3.23, does not support CPZ data (legacy Compustat data format for SETID 200), the SASECRSP engine issues the following error messages when the SETID=200 option or CRSPLINKPATH= option is used:

ERROR: Use the SASEXCCM engine instead of the SASECRSP engine for CCM access. 
       The CPZ data format needed for SETID=200 and the CRSPLINKPATH= options
       was last shipped in July 2011, and is no longer supported by CRSP.
       Use of the SASECRSP engine for this purpose is not allowed: 
       Depreciated calendar configurations may result in fatal errors, 
       corrupted memory, tracebacks, exceptions, or incorrect results 
       for all libname assignments that follow the deassignment 
       of a CCM/CRSPLINKPATH libref.
ERROR: Engine is unable to open crspdb CPZ200606
       with setid 200. Check that your CRSP database contains
       crsp_ca_ref_2.bin file.