The SASEFAME Interface Engine

Syntax: SASEFAME Interface Engine

The SASEFAME engine uses standard engine syntax. Options used by SASEFAME are summarized in Table 34.1.

Table 34.1 Summary of LIBNAME *libref* SASEFAME Statement
Option	Description
CONVERT=	specifies the FAME frequency and the FAME technique
WILDCARD=	specifies a FAME wildcard to match data object series names within the FAME database, which limits the selection of time series that are included in the SAS data set
RANGE=	specifies the range of data to keep in format ’ddmonyyyy’d - ’ddmonyyyy’d
INSET=	uses a SAS data set named setname and/or WHERE= FAME namelist as selection input for BY variables such as tickers or issues stored in a FAME string case series
CROSSLIST=	specifies a FAME crosslist namelist to perform selection based on the crossproduct of two FAME namelists
FAMEOUT=	specifies the FAME data object class/type you want output to the SAS data set