topic The SASEFRED engine cannot be found. in SAS Programming

The SASEFRED engine cannot be found.

FK1 — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:43:47 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I tried accessing FRED data via SAS EG by allocating a libname, usinge the SASEFRED engine.

libname fred6 sasefred "/this/is/my/acllocation/path/FRED_DATA/"
   debug=on
   URL="http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/sources?limit=10"
   APIKEY='here2841is122the129apikey122igot'
   ;

I get the error message:

"The SASEFRED engine cannot be found."

I have SAS9.3 M2 running with SAS/ETS 12.1

Is this engine only available in "younger" ETS-versions (14.1??)?

Cheers,

Re: The SASEFRED engine cannot be found.

Tom — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:51:31 GMT

It appears to have been released in version 13.1.

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/etsug/66840/HTML/default/viewer.htm#etsug_whatsnew_sect016.htm

You will need to update your SAS installation, your SAS installation is 6+ years old.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2013/08/02/how-old-is-your-version-of-sas-release-dates-for-sas-software.html

Old          9.3m2    29Aug2012 12.1
Old          9.4      10Jul2013 12.3
Modern       9.4m1    15Dec2013 13.1
Modern       9.4m2    05Aug2014 13.2
Modern       9.4m3    14Jul2015 14.1
Recent       9.4m4    16Nov2016 14.2
Recent       9.4m5    19Sep2017 14.3
Recent       9.4m6    20Nov2018 15.1

Re: The SASEFRED engine cannot be found.

Vince_SAS — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:01:14 GMT

Can you instead use PROC HTTP or the URL Access Engine for the FILENAME statement?

Vince DelGobbo

SAS R&D