Each DS2 module represents
exactly one package, so the DS2 PACKAGE statement plays a major role
in SAS Micro Analytic Service. A DS2 package contains one or more
methods, and methods can contain a wide variety of DS2 language constructs.
Package methods work well with rapid transaction processing because
they can be called over and over again with little overhead, as transactions
flow through the system. By contrast, the DS2 THREAD and TABLE statements
are batch-oriented and are not supported.
The following code blocks
are supported:
The following code blocks
are batch-processing oriented and are not supported:
Similarly, the following
statements are not supported: OUTPUT and SET