Date:         Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:08:31 -0500
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From:         Nat Wooding <Nathaniel.Wooding@DOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mainframe libname
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Paul

I had forgotten about HFS so I'm glad that I stopped short of thundering in
with my standard file names.

With HFS, shouldn't he/she still have a Disp=Old   on the libname?

Nat

Nat Wooding
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Dominion, Environmental Biology
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             Paul Dorfman
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                                       Re: Mainframe libname

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Steve,

You are right unless in Shaunak's MF environment HFS (Hierarchical File
System) is set up and running, making the ambiance indistinguishable from
UNIX (through the user's prism, of course), -- which methinks is likely
judging from the file name referenced in the LIBNAME statement. In this
case, the error may lie elsewhere, but we will not know until s/he reveals
what it is.

Kind regards
------------
Paul Dorfman
Jax, FL
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-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Steve James <spj1@CDC.GOV>
>
> It's been a number of years since I've worked on a mainframe (IBM MVS)
> but the environment is quite a bit different from a Windows or Unix
> platform.  Where those two are set up in a directory structure (e.g. c:
> \directory\subdirectory\subsubdirectory... etc.), the mainframe
> isn't.  The mainframe groups files under userids (either a personal
> one or a group) with a two level name (name + extension).  It then may
> store files within a single 'file' as in the case of a Partitioned
> Data-set (PDS) or a SAS data library .  A SAS data library is really a
> single file on the mainframe.  It may be named something like
> SPJ1.MYDATA.SASDATA where SPJ1 is my userid, MYDATA is the name of the
> dataset and SASDATA is the extension.  Within this SAS data library
> there can be many SAS data sets.  It looks like from your LIBNAME
> statement below that you are confusing the data structure of the
> mainframe with a data structure that's directory-based since you have
> slashes in the file name.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Jan 25, 10:23 am, "shaunak.adgaon...@gmail.com"
> <shaunak.adgaon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am new to mainframes. What i want to do is to get the mainframe file
> > to SAS permanent dataset. Will the libname statement be of any use. I
> > will give you the exact code
> >
> > LIBNAME AWDDATA 'SAS_USER/REPORTINGDATA/FSO_ICS';
> >
> > FILENAME AWDIP 'PC.MFD.F5725.SVC.METRICS' disp=shr;
> >
> > DATA AWDDATA.AWDIP;
> >          INFILE AWDIP;
> >          format key_date yymmdd10.
> >                     key_time time8.
> >             Begin_Date yymmdd10.
> >                         Begin_Time time8.
> >                         End_Date yymmdd10.
> >                         End_Time time8.;
> >          INPUT  @1      Key_Date
YYMMDD10.
> >                         @11     Key_Time
time8.
> >                         @19 Key_Millisecond                     $6.
> >                         @25 Record_Code                         $1.
> >                         @26 Create_Node                         $2.
> >                         @28 Begin_Unit_Code                     $10.
> >                         @38 Begin_Work_Type                     $10.
> >                         @48 Begin_Status                        $10.
> >                         @58 Begin_Queue                         $8.
> >                         @66 Begin_Date
YYMMDD10.
> >                         @77 Begin_Time                          time8.
> >                         @92 End_Unit_Code                       $10.
> >                         @102 End_Work_Type                      $10.
> >                         @112 End_Status                         $10.
> >                         @122 End_Queue                          $8.
> >                         @130 End_Date
YYMMDD10.
> >                         @141 End_Time                           time8.
> >                         @156 End_User_Identifier        $8.
> >                         @164 Fund
$7.
> >                         @171 Account                            $11.
> >                 ;
> > run;
> >
> > but it gives me error. Please help guys



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