Allocating the Database Files

In the single-user environment, you must allocate the appropriate database files in your SAS session before invoking the DBLOAD procedure. For a Multi-User environment, the database files must already exist and can be allocated when the Multi-User software is initialized or, in Release 12.0 and later of SYSTEM 2000, the files can be dynamically allocated during execution by using the ALLOC command. If a database already exists, it is not released; SYSTEM 2000 returns a message and PROC DBLOAD terminates.