Date:         Thu, 13 Feb 1997 14:08:00 PST
Reply-To:     Robert Mengis <rmengis@PACCAR.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Robert Mengis <rmengis@PACCAR.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS/SHARE
Comments: To: msmith@TUPDEAN1.MED.DAL.CA

If it's strictly "read only", you shouldn't need SAS/SHARE.  In the MVS
world(SNA), all MICS(SAS
based repository) datasets are just allocated "disp=shr"==> no problem.
We also developed a
small  LAN based SAS/AF application(<30 users), using a work control-file
for each user against an updatable SAS master file==>virtually no
contention.
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Original Text
From: Mark Smith <msmith@TUPDEAN1.MED.DAL.CA>, on 2/13/97 5:03 PM:
>>1) SAS/SHARE allowes you to simultaneously read/write from/to a dataset.
>It allowes you to lock (use it for yourself only) a record or a whole
>dataset.
>
>2) You take one computer as a server. Al you have to do is to assign
>libraries on this server and start proc server. In this procedure you
>specify a server name. The other computers, the clients, will assign
>their libraries specifying a servername instead of a path.
>example:
>
 
Is there a better (or alternative way) of doing multiple, shared, read-only
access to SAS datasets over a network? (ie. other than using SAS share).
 
--
Mark Smith
Programmer/Data Manager
Population Health Research Unit
Dalhousie University
5849 University Ave.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7
Canada
 
Phone: (902) 494-6456
 
Website: www.mcms.dal.ca/gorgs/phru/
 
Robert Mengis
PACCAR MIS
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