Date:         Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:22:41 -0800
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From:         "William W. Viergever" <william@VIERGEVER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Tracking what .sas file created a dataset?
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At 12:40 PM 1/12/2007, Wainwright, Andrea wrote:
>I don't know of any automatic way in SAS.


memories ....

at some point, proc contents had that, and not just then pgm name,
but the source code

what say ye fellow codgers, when was it & when did it go away?

inquiring monds want to know




>What I have done, especially on the mainframe is put my dataset near the
>code.
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>So if the code is u12345.proj2.adhoc.task(prog.sas) then I put the
>dataset it creates in u12345.proj2.adhoc.task.data(prog).
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>Works wonders!  I've had people come back to me months later and ask me
>to create an updated version of some analysis dataset I did for them.
>All I ask them is where was the original dataset located.  That tells me
>where the code is.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Tracking what .sas file created a dataset?
>
>Is there an automatic way to do know what file created a particular
>dataset? Say I create a dataset and store it in a library, and I later
>want to access this dataset but don't remember what .sas file created
>it. Of course I can grep *.sas, but I want to keep this information with
>the dataset. Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.
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