topic Re: Read a sas dataset from a shared drive location in SAS Programming

Read a sas dataset from a shared drive location

astha8882000 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:45:18 GMT

I have a SAS data set (.sas7bdat) in a shared drive location. How do I read that file? If I use general libname command then I get the error so I'm assuming libname should be used to create librefs for sas grid specific locations only.

libname trial "S:\shared drive path";
data check1;
set trial.[dataset name that I want to read];
run;

NOTE: Library TRIAL does not exist.

ERROR: File TRIAL.[dataset name that I want to read].DATA does not exist.

Re: Read a sas dataset from a shared drive location

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:48:41 GMT

It means that the location is not available on your SAS server. It might be mounted there under another name (especially if your grid uses UNIX), or not mounted at all.

Re: Read a sas dataset from a shared drive location

ballardw — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:55:49 GMT

I would expect to see something in log indicating whether the library was successfully assigned.

From my log for example:

NOTE: Libref BRFSS was successfully assigned as follows:
      Engine:        V9
      Physical Name: <Path>\BRFSS

or a not that it wasn't successful. If not likely the issue would be either the path or permissions.