Hi Jeff,

For a number of years we have used the PROC DOWNLOAD, PROC CPORT/CIMPORT stuff. The DOWNLOAD was faster than the Slooooow pokie others. However, the majority of huge data we download is flat file and since SAS added the FTP engine to the FILENAME statement, we have used nothing else since.

We just use the FTP in the FILENAME statement and read the MVS flat files directly from our PC datasteps. There are hundreds of SAS people in our State environment and it doesn't seem like you hear much of the older methods used any more.

example:

FILENAME mytoken ftp "'MY.MVS.FILE.NAME'" user = "myacct" pass = "mypwd" host = "my.mvs.named.addr" debug;

Hope this is helpful, Mark Terjeson Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Division of Research and Data Analysis (RDA) mailto:terjemw@dshs.wa.gov

-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Morison [mailto:jmt_mtf@YAHOO.COM] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:55 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Fastest way to download data from MVS to PC

Folks:

We download SAS data and ASCII files from MVS to PC on a regular basis, the size ranges from 0.5 GB to 35 GB, we would like to know the fastest way to bring the data to PC.

I know how to bring it using PROC DOWNLOAD, CREATE A TRANSPORT FILE USING CPORT/CIMPORT, PROC COPY, I just need to know other fastest and efficient ways to download.

Any help would be appreciated?.

Jeff.

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