Create a Permanent Data Set?

The data set you have been using is stored in a temporary SAS data library having the libref WORK. If you were to end your SAS session, this data set would disappear. In this window, SAS/LAB software offers you a chance to store the data set in a permanent library so that you can use it in subsequent SAS sessions.

If you would like the data set to remain temporary, select Cancel. If you would like to store the data set in a permanent location, select OK.

Before selecting OK, you can use the SAS data library button and the Data set name field to specify the permanent location for the data set. By default, the data set will be stored in the SASUSER library under its current one-level name.

Selecting the SAS data library button brings up a list of the SAS data libraries that are currently available for storing the data set (note that you may not have the authority to write to all listed data libraries). Select a library from this list. Then, enter any valid SAS name for the data set name.

When you select OK, SAS/LAB software checks to see whether there is already a data set of the two-level name you have specified. If there is, you are asked to select another name.

Note that this window does not rename or delete the temporary data set. Rather, it creates a copy of the data set in a permanent location.

SAS/LAB software's label for the old (work) data set is used as the data set label for the new data set.

This window appears when you are using a data set in the WORK library and you signal that you want to either end SAS/LAB software or analyze a different data set.