The RENAME subroutine renames a SAS data set.

The arguments to the RENAME subroutine are as follows:

libname

is a character matrix or quoted literal that contains the name of the SAS data library.

member-name

is a character matrix or quoted literal that contains the current name of the data set.

new-name

is a character matrix or quoted literal that contains the new data set name.

The RENAME subroutine renames a SAS data set in the specified library. All of the arguments can directly be specified in quotes, although quotes are not required. If a one-level data set name is specified, the libname specified by the RESET DEFLIB statement is used. Examples of valid statements follow:

   call rename("a","b");
   call rename(a,b);
   call rename(work,a,b);