Operating Environment-Specific Procedures |
The following table gives a brief description and the relevant releases for some common operating environment-specific procedures. All of these procedures are described in more detail in operating environment-companion documentation.
Procedure | Description | Releases |
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BMDP | Calls any BMDP program to analyze data in a SAS data set. | All |
CONVERT | Converts BMDP, OSIRIS, and SPSS system files to SAS data sets. | All |
C16PORT | Converts a 16-bit SAS library or catalog created in Release 6.08 to a transport file, which you can then convert to a 32-bit format for use in the current release of SAS by using the CIMPORT procedure. | 6.10 - 6.12 |
FSDEVICE | Creates, copies, modifies, deletes, or renames device descriptions in a catalog. | All |
PDS | Lists, deletes, or renames the members of a partitioned data set. | 6.09E |
PDSCOPY | Copies partitioned data sets from disk to disk, disk to tape, tape to tape, or tape to disk. | 6.09E |
RELEASE | Releases unused space at the end of a disk data set. | 6.09E |
SOURCE | Provides an easy way to back up and process source library data sets. | 6.09E |
TAPECOPY | Copies an entire tape volume, or files from one or more tape volumes, to one output tape volume. | 6.09E |
TAPELABEL | Writes the label information of an IBM standard-labeled tape volume to the SAS procedure output file. | 6.09E |
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