Each DS2 module represents
exactly one package, and therefore 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