Framework macros and
SAS macros specific to a standard provide the foundation for the SAS
Clinical Standards Toolkit functionality. Three other SAS Clinical
Standards Toolkit components are also noteworthy:
The SAS Clinical Standards
Toolkit provides a set of driver programs (non-macro SAS code) that
illustrate all of the basic SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit functions
using sample data provided by SAS. These drivers can serve as templates
for the processes that you want to develop. These drivers might be
submitted as batch or interactive processes. They can be found in
the programs subfolder for each standard (
for the relative
location of this folder, see Folder Hierarchy for CDISC ADaM 2.1 Sample).
For a more complete
description of what these drivers do, see Using the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit.
The SAS Clinical Standards
Toolkit provides a series of framework properties files and properties
files specific to a standard (such as initialization, validation,
and report properties files). You can use these files to define global
macro variables and to set their default values. These typically can
be found in the same folders as the driver programs. Use of these
property files is optional but recommended, and you can add your own
global macro variables as needed.
Here are some general
observations about the sample SASReferences data set:
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The
type and
subtype values
are used by the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit code to find the fileref
or libref associated with a particular input or output file type.
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The SASref can be any user-defined
value.
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An empty path tells the SAS Clinical
Standards Toolkit to look for the default value from the metadata
for a specific standard in the global standards library (usually a
global standards library location).
A
complete discussion of the SASReferences data set is provided in Chapter 6, “SASReferences File,” in the
SAS
Clinical Standards Toolkit: User's Guide.
The SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit defines a standard SASReferences
data set for each supported standard (found in the
global standards library directory/standards/standard/control
directory).