Operating Environment-Specific Procedures |
The
following table gives a brief description and the relevant releases for some
common operating environment-specific procedures. All of these procedures
are described in more detail in operating environment-companion documentation.
Host-Specific Procedures
Procedure |
Description |
Releases |
BMDP |
Calls any BMDP program to analyze data in a SAS data set. |
All |
CONVERT |
Converts BMDP, OSIRIS, and SPSS system files to SAS data sets. |
All |
C16PORT |
Converts a 16-bit SAS library or catalog created in Release
6.08 to a transport file, which you can then convert to a 32-bit format for
use in the current release of SAS by using the CIMPORT procedure. |
6.10 - 6.12 |
FSDEVICE |
Creates, copies, modifies, deletes, or renames device descriptions in
a catalog. |
All |
PDS |
Lists, deletes, or renames the members of a partitioned data set. |
6.09E |
PDSCOPY |
Copies partitioned data sets from disk to disk, disk to tape, tape to
tape, or tape to disk. |
6.09E |
RELEASE |
Releases unused space at the end of a disk data set. |
6.09E |
SOURCE |
Provides an easy way to back up and process source library data sets. |
6.09E |
TAPECOPY |
Copies an entire tape volume, or files from one or more tape volumes,
to one output tape volume. |
6.09E |
TAPELABEL |
Writes the label information of an IBM standard-labeled tape volume
to the SAS procedure output file. |
6.09E |
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