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Charles Wolters
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I have a large number of SAS data sets that needed to be transferred to a PC from the mainframe. We usually use PROC CPORT or the XPORT engine to accomplish this task. In doing some reading, I came across the acronym CEDA (Cross Environment Data Access). If your mainframe system has UNIX System Services then your system has HFS (hierarchical file structure). Supposedly one should be able to put one's SAS data sets into a HFS directory and then FTP the data sets to the PC without constructing SAS transportable files.
First - Is anyone used this method and if so, could they point me to some literature providing some detail on the process?
Second - If no one has used this method could anyone point me to some literature telling me how to create a directory in HFS using a batch setup with JCL?
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expat
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You could always try to see if you have SAS/Connect installed.
That way you can copy directly from the z/OS mainframe to the PC |
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vasanthz
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Hello,
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| could anyone point me to some literature telling me how to create a directory in HFS using a batch setup with JCL? |
You could create USS directory from SAS piping and submit the SAS in batch.
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filename oecmd pipe ('mkdir /unix/directory/being/created/');
data _null_;
infile oecmd;
run; |
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libname xx '/unix/directory/being/created/';
data xx._null_;
run; |
I have not tried out CEDA completely,since I don't have easy access to PC SAS, but the methodology can be tested, what happened when you tried?
1. create a USS directory which will hold the SAS datasets. let it be "/unix/directory/being/created"
2. assign the USS directory in libname statement with OUTREP=WINDOWS_32
3. write a test dataset into the USS directory.
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libname OUTLIB '/unix/directory/being/created' outrep=WINDOWS_32;
data OUTLIB.class;
set sashelp.class;
run; |
4. FTP the file from USS to PC in BINARY mode and try to view the dataset in PC SAS.
5. I envy you for having PC SAS :-) |
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