topic Can I use SAS statement to refer to a pre-assigned library? in SAS Programming

Can I use SAS statement to refer to a pre-assigned library?

MicSun — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:35:12 GMT

In new SAS Grid computing environment, there are some pre-assigned libraries, such as CES, CI...Good thing is SAS EG users are able to access to different server directly. But, I have to manually assign library (double click 'CES' library from sas server) before I can pull data/use tables. I am wondering that is there a way to use SAS statement to assign SAS libraries 'CES' without double click? In this way, I can automatic/schedule SAS programs without manually interrupt. In this case, I don't have SAS admin right and no libraries path...as a business user ONLY.

Re: Can I use SAS statement to refer to a pre-assigned library?

ChrisNZ — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 02:18:21 GMT

Unsure this will help, but in case you don't know this syntax:

libname THISLIB "%sysfunc(pathname(THATLIB))" access=readonly;

Re: Can I use SAS statement to refer to a pre-assigned library?

MicSun — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:25:08 GMT

Thank you for your reply. But still cannot find "Pre-assigned libraries"

libname CES "%sysfunc(libref(CES))" ;

NOTE: Library CES does not exist.

Re: Can I use SAS statement to refer to a pre-assigned library?

Tom — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 18:13:38 GMT

Where are these libraries defined? If they are only assigned in EG then your SAS program cannot reach back into your PC and ask EG what libraries you defined. If they are defined in your SAS Metadata server then you should be able to discover them, but I don't know how since I don't use that feature of SAS.

Why not just put in the SAS code to define the libraries? Do you know how they are defined?

If you want to have some control then place these statements in a place where you code and find them and just use %INCLUDE statement to pull in the code and run it.

Or are you talking about SAS connection session? Where there are some libraries defined in the local session and you want to reference those locations in the remote session? Not sure how to do that but it is easy to do it the other way using the REMOTE engine on the libname statement.