https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Only-SAS-files/m-p/683940#M207201 <P>My office runs regular SAS codes that are quite complex.&nbsp; Recently one of them was changed in a minor way that caused it not to run without anyone knowing.&nbsp; WAs wondering if there was a way to create a read only SAS file that would still process but would close it for edits?&nbsp; Thank you.</P> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:28:31 GMT TinaLuse 2020-09-15T12:28:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Only-SAS-files/m-p/683940#M207201 <P>My office runs regular SAS codes that are quite complex.&nbsp; Recently one of them was changed in a minor way that caused it not to run without anyone knowing.&nbsp; WAs wondering if there was a way to create a read only SAS file that would still process but would close it for edits?&nbsp; Thank you.</P> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:28:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Only-SAS-files/m-p/683940#M207201 TinaLuse 2020-09-15T12:28:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Only-SAS-files/m-p/683950#M207202 <P>Depends on what system you are using.&nbsp; The most secure is to change the permission on the file at the operating system level.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The easiest way is to make sure to use the ACCESS=READONLY option when defining the libref that points to the file.&nbsp; Then users cannot use that libref to modify any of the datasets.&nbsp; You will just make sure that users are doing that consistently.</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">libname ourdata '/some path' access=readonly;</CODE></PRE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:31:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Only-SAS-files/m-p/683950#M207202 Tom 2020-09-15T13:31:19Z