topic Doubt with libname readonly access in SAS Programming

Doubt with libname readonly access

mlm155 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:02:47 GMT

Assume I write a libname as follows:

libname ReferenceName "Path_to_the_folder" access = readonly;

and there are multiple data files in that location (eg: ABC.sas7bdat, XYZ.sas7bdat, PQR.sas7bdat).

My question is: does READONLY access get applied to all of the above data files or do I have to specifically mention that for the file I want to deal with?

Thanks for the support everyone.

Re: Doubt with libname readonly access

Reeza — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:10:43 GMT

From the documentation:

READONLY

assigns a read-only attribute to an entire SAS library. SAS does not allow you to open a data set in the library in order to update information or write new information.

https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.2/lestmtsglobal/n1nk65k2vsfmxfn1wu17fntzszbp.htm

@mlm155 wrote:

Assume I write a libname as follows:

libname ReferenceName "Path_to_the_folder" access = readonly;

and there are multiple data files in that location (eg: ABC.sas7bdat, XYZ.sas7bdat, PQR.sas7bdat).

My question is: does READONLY access get applied to all of the above data files or do I have to specifically mention that for the file I want to deal with?

Thanks for the support everyone.

Re: Doubt with libname readonly access

mlm155 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:17:46 GMT

Thanks 🙂