A SAS data set can be opened as a client data set if it is accessible by the PC operating system of the computer on which SAS/IML Studio runs. A data set on a USB flash drive, hard drive, CD drive, or DVD drive can be opened as a client data set. So, too, can a data set on a networked PC or a UNIX data set that is accessible through a mounted networked drive. For example, the following can be opened as client data sets:
C:\Program Files\SAS\SASIMLStudio\12.1\Data Sets\Hurricanes.sas7bdat
\\PC123\Public\Data\climate.sas7bdat
U:\SAS Data\patients.sas7bdat
A SAS data set is a server data set if it is in a SAS library such as Work, Sasuser, or Sashelp, or in a libref that you define by using the LIBNAME statement. For example, the following are server data sets:
Sashelp.Class
Work.Data1
MyLib.Research