https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681934#M206359 <P>This isn't possible directly, but you could take a copy of the original dataset, amend the copy, then update the original table dropping any columns you didn't want updated. But what happens if you allow addition or deletion of rows? By definition you are changing the protected variables.</P> Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:26:56 GMT SASKiwi 2020-09-07T01:26:56Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681930#M206357 <P>Is there a way to&nbsp;write-protect a variable of a SAS dataset?&nbsp; Running on SAS 9.4.</P> Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:17:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681930#M206357 dataMart87 2020-09-07T01:17:25Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681934#M206359 <P>This isn't possible directly, but you could take a copy of the original dataset, amend the copy, then update the original table dropping any columns you didn't want updated. But what happens if you allow addition or deletion of rows? By definition you are changing the protected variables.</P> Mon, 07 Sep 2020 01:26:56 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681934#M206359 SASKiwi 2020-09-07T01:26:56Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681951#M206366 <P>SAS does not offer this level of granularity. You can protect tables, but not variables or observations (except with SAS/SHARE, which can lock rows).</P> Mon, 07 Sep 2020 05:00:50 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/how-to-write-protect-variables-of-a-SAS-dataset/m-p/681951#M206366 ChrisNZ 2020-09-07T05:00:50Z