topic Proc catalog in SAS Programming

Proc catalog

kajal_30 — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:03:31 GMT

I am trying to read SAS catalog. I have printed out all the contents of the catalog but now I want to see what information in stored in each content .

Please help and provide code if possible

Kajal

Re: Proc catalog

Tom — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:05:34 GMT

@kajal_30 wrote:

I am trying to read SAS catalog. I have printed out all the contents of the catalog but now I want to see what information in stored in each content .

Please help and provide code if possible

Kajal

What tool to use will depend on what type of catalog entries you have.

Are they SAS formats? Then use the FMTLIB option on the PROC FORMAT satement.

Re: Proc catalog

kajal_30 — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:27:19 GMT

I can only see the columns as names , type,date created, date modified as the result of contents .But how about if I need to see further in each catalog?

Re: Proc catalog

ballardw — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:38:23 GMT

@kajal_30 wrote:

I can only see the columns as names , type,date created, date modified as the result of contents .But how about if I need to see further in each catalog?

Show us the Types of entries.

Many of the catalog entries cannot be "read". Sometimes the contents or use can be displayed but the approach depends on the type.

Re: Proc catalog

Tom — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:53:53 GMT

So what types of objects are in this catalogs?

Why not ask SAS?

proc freq data=sashelp.vcatalg order=freq ;
  tables memtype objtype;
run;

Add a WHERE clause to restrict on LIBNAME and/or MEMNAME to see the result for just some of the libraries that you current have defined.