Date:         Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:50:22 +0000
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Organization: Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Subject:      Re: %INCLUDE from SAS WORK? (MVS)

Howard Schreier <Howard_Schreier@ITA.DOC.GOV> writes
>Demonstration of catalog access method and %include.
>
>This was run using V 6.12 on Win98, but it the code ought to be
>platform independent.
>
>26   filename democam catalog 'work.anything.output';
>27
>28   data _null_;
>29   file democam;
>30   put 'put "putput";' ;
>31   run;
>
>NOTE: The file DEMOCAM is:
>      Catalog Name=WORK.ANYTHING.OUTPUT.CATAMS,
>      Catalog Page Size=4096,
>      Number of Catalog Pages=6,
>      Created=14:02 Thursday, March 2, 2000,
>      Last Modified=14:04 Thursday, March 2, 2000
>
>NOTE: 1 record was written to the file DEMOCAM.
>      The minimum record length was 13.
>      The maximum record length was 13.
>NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.0 seconds.
>
>
>32
>33   data _null_;
>34   %include democam;
>36   run;
>
>putput
>NOTE: The DATA statement used 0.05 seconds.


Unfortunately the catalog access method is experimental on os390/mvs

The syntax is different, but the principles are the same.
I haven't tested it for this objective, but....
for details of the syntax see
ftp.sas.com  /techsup/download/technote/ts556.txt (and .html)

TS-556
CATALOG, FTP, and SOCKET Access Methods for 6.09E, MVS

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Peter Crawford