Date:         Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:41:51 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Hardcopies of catalog output entries (VAX VMS)
In-Reply-To:  <s7149c25.062@THIOKOL.COM>

For anyone who needs, or would benefit from catalog access method on SAS
v6.09E on MVS or OS/390
 
see the ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote area, in particular
ts556.txt
 
or see http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts556.html
 
 
TS-556
CATALOG, FTP, and SOCKET Access Methods for 6.09E, MVS
 
The CATALOG, FTP, and SOCKET Access Methods are available in TSLEVEL
455 of Release 6.09E on MVS via the FILENAME statement. This initial
implementation has an experimental status and will be replaced by the
"XX" AMS Access Methods in a future release of The SAS System.
 
 
The remainder of the TSnote describes the syntax of each of these
methods and provides examples.
The catalog access method section gives
 
  Syntax
 
  FILENAME fileref 'pgm=sasreadc'  pgmparm = 'filename';
 
  where:
  fileref   is any valid SAS name.
  filename  is the name of a catalog entry (must be four
            level name).
 
 EXAMPLE 1: Creating a Source Entry
 
 filename myfile 'pgm=sasreadc' pgmparm='sasuser.profile.write.source';
 
   data _null_;
     file myfile;
        put 'source statements';
   run;
 
 EXAMPLE 2: Using %INCLUDE to Submit Source Code from a Catalog Entry
 
   filename dir 'pgm=sasreadc' pgmparm='sasuser.profile.write.source';
 
   %include dir;
 
 
 
James R. Donat <DONATJR@THIOKOL.COM> writes
>I recently posted a question on how to copy a catalog entry of type OUTPUT to an
>external file in SCL using SAS 6.09E on VAX VMS (which can then be printed out
>using a system command).  I got four solutions on doint this, and I'm sharing
>them here in hopes that someone else will benefit from them.  The solutions are
>summarized below:
>
>
>
>(4) data step
>
>Thanks go to Ian Whitlock for this one.  This works great if your release of SAS
>supports the catalog option in the filename statement (which Release 6.09E does
>not).  The code Ian used is:
>
>  %macro copyout ( entry= ) ;
>      filename in catalog "lib.cat.&entry..source" ;
>      filename out "..." ;
 
--
Peter Crawford