The SPDSCONV
program is a command-line utility. You use a set of command-line options
and parameters to specify the name and location of tables you wish
to convert, then specify the options you desire for your conversion.
If your SPD Server software is installed on a UNIX platform, see the
SPD Server UNIX Installation Guide for information about setup before running SPDSCONV.
The form
of the command line is as follows:
SPDSCONV <Options> [-a | table1 [table2]]
The order
of options and table names on the command line does not matter. All
of the currently available options are global options. Placing a global
option before or after a table does not change the option setting
for that table alone.
Options
for the SPDSCONV command are:
the directory path
corresponding to an existing SPD Server LIBNAME domain. The pathname
specification should be the same as the PATHNAME= directory path found
in the libnames.parm file.
the directory path
to store SAS job files created during the conversion process. The
default logpath setting is the directory where the SPDSCONV command
is issued.
converts all SPD Server
3.x compatible tables in the -d pathnamedirectory to SPD Server 4.4
compatible tables.
creates a SAS job in
the log directory for each SPD Server 3.x table conversion where indexes
are present. When run, the SAS job recreates the indexes on the SPD
Server 4.4 table. The SAS job must be run after the SPDSCONV utility
completes. Because index recreation can be computation-intensive,
users might want to schedule SAS index recreation jobs as a SAS batch
jobs for off-peak hours. The utility generates the name of the SAS
job file as follows:
TableName_v4ix.sas
where TableName is
the name of the SPD Server 4.4-compatible table. The SAS job file
contains the SAS language statements necessary to recreate the indexes
that the SPD Server 3.x table used. The job file will need to be edited
before execution to ensure that the proper SPD Server 4.4 LIBNAME
is used with the PROC DATASETS statement.
create verbose output
for the conversion process.