An
engine is a component of SAS software that reads from or writes to
a file. The SAS LASR Analytic Server engine provides Read and
Write access for data and metadata information such as variable attributes.
Each engine enables SAS to access files that are in a particular format.
There are several types of SAS engines.
You
use the SAS LASR Analytic Server engine
like other SAS data access engines. That is, you execute a LIBNAME
statement to assign a libref and to specify the engine. You then use
that libref throughout the SAS session where a libref is valid to
access a SAS LASR Analytic Server instance.