Using SPDSCONV

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:
-d pathname
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.
-l logpath
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.
-a
converts all SPD Server 3.x compatible tables in the -d pathnamedirectory to SPD Server 4.4 compatible tables.
-j
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.
-v
create verbose output for the conversion process.