When you use SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 to connect to the DB2 database, the SAS® System looks for tables that are owned or created by the user ID that is listed in the LIBNAME statement. If the software does not find any tables associated with that user ID, the SAS log still shows that the library was assigned successfully, as shown in the following example output:
libname mylib db2 user=user-id password=password datasrc=data-source-name; NOTE: Libref MYLIB was successfully assigned as follows: Engine: DB2
However, no tables appear in the library in the SAS Explorer window, as shown here:
The library does not show any tables because there are no tables owned or created by the user ID from the LIBNAME statement. Therefore, you need to define a schema in the LIBNAME statement. A schema is the owner or creator of tables. To see tables that are owned or created by a different user, you must use the SCHEMA=schema-name option in the LIBNAME statement.
To determine the schema for your tables, follow these steps:
After you run the code, open the created table to see the schema and table names:
When you submit the LIBNAME statement in this example, the tables with a schema value of DBITEST appear in the Explorer window.
Note: When you connect to DB2, the schema name can, at times, case sensitive. Therefore, you need to try the schema name in the following four ways:
Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
Reported | Fixed* | |||
SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 | Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |