What's New in Moving and Accessing SAS 9.3 Files

Overview

This document has been updated to include information about the CEDA and the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures.

The following enhancement relates to the Cross-Environment Data Access (CEDA) functionality:

UNIX File System libraries on z/OS support all CEDA data representations. However, under z/OS, SAS bound libraries support only SAS data sets that have a CEDA data representation of MVS_32. CEDA Limitations are identified.

The following enhancements relate to the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures:

SAS name literals that include embedded blanks can now be used with the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures. Refer to SAS Name Literals in SAS Language Reference: Concepts for details.
When VALIDVARNAME=ANY or VALIDMEMNAME=EXTEND are specified, the data set names or member names used in the CIMPORT and CPORT procedures can now be up to 32 bytes in length. Names and member names can also be mixed case. Refer to VALIDMEMNAME= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference and VALIDVARNAME= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference for details.
The CPORT SELECT and EXCLUDE statements now support case sensitive names from the ACCESS Engine.
The CIMPORT SELECT and EXCLUDE statements now support case sensitive names from the CPORT file.