Follow
these steps to create a connection to a SAS data set:
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Click the
Data
Connections tab and click
New.
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Select
SAS
Data Set Connection from the drop-down menu.
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Enter a name and description
for the new connection into the appropriate fields.
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Enter the path to the
directory that contains the SAS data set that you want to connect
to.
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Verify that the appropriate
option is specified in the
Access field. The
Default value
assigns read-write access. The
Read-Only value
assigns Read-Only access. The
Temp value
specifies that the data set is to be treated as a scratch file, which
is stored only in memory, not on disk.
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Verify that the appropriate
option is specified in the
Compression field.
If you compress data, you might experience a slowdown in performance.
The
No value specifies that the observations
are uncompressed. Use the
Yes or
Character value
to compress character data. Use the
Binary value
to compress binary data.
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Verify that the appropriate
option is specified in the
Table Locking field.
The
Share value specifies that other users
or processes can read data from the table but prevents other users
from updating. The
Exclusive value locks
tables exclusively, which prevents other users from accessing that
table until you close it.
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Verify that the appropriate
option is specified in the
Encoding field.
The default value is SAS System encoding. You might select an encoding
that is different than the default if you are processing a file with
a different encoding.
Note: You can select an encoding
from the drop-down menu. If you enter the first few letters of the
desired encoding, the closest match will be added to this field.
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The
Connection
String field displays the connection string for the SAS
data set. Check the connection string to see whether the appropriate
options encoding has been selected for this connection. You can test
the connection by clicking
Test Connection.
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Click
OK to
save the new connection.