XPORT Engine with DATA Step or PROC COPY

Overview of the XPORT Engine

The XPORT engine creates files in transport format, which uses an environment independent standard for character encoding and numeric representation. Transport files that are created by the XPORT engine can be transferred across operating environments and read using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.

Here is the process for creating a transport file at the source computer and reading it on a target computer:

A transport file is created at the source computer using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.
The file is transferred from the source computer to the target computer.
The transport file is read at the target computer using the XPORT engine with the DATA step or PROC COPY.

Note: Transport files that are created using PROC CPORT are not interchangeable with transport files that are created using the XPORT engine. [cautionend]

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