The FILENAME statement and the FTP access method may be used to write out a transport file to a remote location with PROC CPORT.

However, in SAS 9, if the file does not already exist, SAS issues the following error message and stops processing:

ERROR:  Physical file does not exist

To circumvent the problem, create an empty file on the target host with the appropriate file attributes and resubmit the code.

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