RETRIEVE_FDB

Retrieves a financial database entry from a package.

Syntax

CALL RETRIEVE_FDB(entryId, libname, memname, rc);

entryId

Numeric, input.
Identifies the FDB entry.

libname

Character, input.
Specifies the SAS library that will contain the retrieved FDB.

memname

Character, input.
Specifies the member name of the retrieved FDB.

rc

Numeric, output.
Receives a return code.

Details

If the memname parameter is blank, the RETRIEVE_FDB CALL routine creates the FDB using the original member name as it was defined at publish time.

The following example retrieves an FDB entry WORK.OUTDATA from the package.

lib = 'work';
mem = 'outdata';
CALL RETRIEVE_FDB(entryId, lib, mem, rc);