topic Re: How do i list all libraries and libref in SASApp in SAS Programming

How do i list all libraries and libref in SASApp

dardodds — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:57:24 GMT

We have a mixed environment. We use Enterprise Guide connected to a SASApp ( 9.04.01M4P110916) server (windows X64_SR12R2) to prep our data. Then we us SAS Visual Analytics for reporting and analysis and SAS Studio for the odd coding tweaking.

We need to have an easy way to get a list of libraries and their librefs. I tried proc contents _all_ it does not list all the libraries, just SAS libraries. This is the code I have tried

proc sql noprint;

create table one as

select * from dictionary.libnames;

quit;

proc print;

run;

Again it only lists the SAS libraries but no user libraries. Any ideas how to get a full list of libraries in SASApp and their librefs?

Thanks

Darlene

Re: How do i list all libraries and libref in SASApp

LinusH — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:27:08 GMT

What do you mean <exactly> with libraries?
Physically, and directory that holds a SAS file can be considered a library...
SAS code finds libraries that are assigned in the current session.
Another angle is to consider libraries that are registered in metadata.

Re: How do i list all libraries and libref in SASApp

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:57:42 GMT

Also, if you have a SASApp server and are using VA, there is a very good chance that your libraries are defined in the Metadata and controlled by the authorization settings in the Metadata.

So, you might have to use SAS Management Console to see the libraries that are defined.

cynthia

Re: How do i list all libraries and libref in SASApp

dardodds — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:48:11 GMT

Thanks for the reply. We already use SAS Management Console to manage libraries. The reason we need code to get a list of libraries is we are trying to write a report to automatically update the list of librefs that we need. it's easy to get the librefs in Enterprise Guide but not so straightforward in SAS Studio. So that's why we need to have a code snippet that will provide it.

Re: How do i list all libraries and libref in SASApp

dardodds — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:53:06 GMT

I got some assistance from SAS Technical help and here is the code that worked for me.

data metadata_libraries;

length liburi upasnuri $256 name $128 type id $17 libref engine $8 path mdschemaname schema $256;

keep name libref engine path mdschemaname schema;

call missing(liburi,upasnuri,name,engine,libref);

nlibobj=1;

librc=metadata_getnobj("omsobj:SASLibrary?@Id contains '.'",nlibobj,liburi);

do while (librc>0);

rc=metadata_getattr(liburi,'Name',name);

rc=metadata_getattr(liburi,'Engine',engine);

rc=metadata_getattr(liburi,'Libref',libref);

n=1;

uprc=metadata_getnasn(liburi,'UsingPackages',n,upasnuri);

if uprc > 0 then do;

call missing(type,id,path,mdschemaname,schema);

rc=metadata_resolve(upasnuri,type,id);

if type='Directory' then do;

rc=metadata_getattr(upasnuri,'DirectoryName',path);

output;

end;

else if type='DatabaseSchema' then do;

rc=metadata_getattr(upasnuri,'Name',mdschemaname);

rc=metadata_getattr(upasnuri,'SchemaName',schema);

output;

end;

n+1;

uprc=metadata_getnasn(liburi,'UsingPackages',n,upasnuri);

end;

nlibobj+1;

librc=metadata_getnobj("omsobj:SASLibrary?@Id contains '.'",nlibobj,liburi);

end;

run;