Specifying the URL= Option to Create VINTAGE_DATES Data Set.
/*----------------------------------------------------------------
SAS SAMPLE LIBRARY
Name: fredex07.sas
Description: Example program from SAS/ETS User's Guide,
The SASEFRED Interface Engine
Title: Specifying the URL= Option to Create VINTAGE_DATES Data Set.
Product: SAS/ETS Software
Keys: FRED data extraction
Procs: SASEFRED
Notes: Read this before you run this sample.
The sample data provided resides in the ets/sasmisc folder.
Define a system environment variable,
FRED, to the path of your writeable folder containing
the XFREDtpu.xml as your destination folder for FRED data.
To assign a fileref to the external file to be processed,
use the following form of the libname statement:
libname fred sasefred "%sysget(FRED)"
URL="https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/vintagedates?series_id=N5005C1A027NBEA"
APIKEY='<your FRED apikey>'
IDLIST= 'N5005C1A027NBEA'
;
----------------------------------------------------------------*/
options validvarname=any
sslcalistloc="/SASSecurityCertificateFramework/1.1/cacerts/trustedcerts.pem";
title 'Specifying the URL= Option to Create the VINTAGE_DATES Data Set';
libname _all_ clear;
libname mylib "/sasusr/playpens/saskff/fred/doc/";
libname fred1 sasefred "%sysget(FRED)"
URL="https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/vintagedates?series_id=N5005C1A027NBEA"
APIKEY='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
IDLIST= 'N5005C1A027NBEA'
;
data mylib.vindat1;
set fred1.XFREDtpu;
run;
proc print
data=mylib.vindat1;
run;
proc contents
data=mylib.vindat1;
run;