Why isn't my output data saved in the correct location as instructed?

Nietzsche — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 23:25:10 GMT

Hello, I am doing the programming 1 tutorial as shown below

so ran the code as instructed

libname out "/home/u62043935/EPG1V2/output";

data storm_cat5;
	set pg1.storm_summary;
	where maxwindmph >= 156 and startdate >="01jan2000"d;
	keep season basin name type maxwindmph;
run;

From my understanding of the instruction, the storm_cat file should be inside the /home/u62043935/EPG1V2/output

However, it is in the WORK library, which is not permanent. And a library called "OUT" was created but is empty.

So my question is why isn't my output file in the expected place, or even in the OUT library but in the WORK library?

there is the log.

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

70

71 libname out "/home/u62043935/EPG1V2/output";

NOTE: Libref OUT was successfully assigned as follows:

Engine: V9

Physical Name: /home/u62043935/EPG1V2/output

72

73 data storm_cat5;

74 set pg1.storm_summary;

75 where maxwindmph >= 156 and startdate >="01jan2000"d;

76 keep season basin name type maxwindmph;

77 run;

NOTE: There were 18 observations read from the data set PG1.STORM_SUMMARY.

WHERE (maxwindmph>=156) and (startdate>='01JAN2000'D);

NOTE: The data set WORK.STORM_CAT5 has 18 observations and 5 variables.

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

user cpu time 0.00 seconds

system cpu time 0.00 seconds

memory 1242.21k

OS Memory 29484.00k

Timestamp 15/10/2022 11:17:12 PM

Step Count 76 Switch Count 2

Page Faults 0

Page Reclaims 226

Page Swaps 0

Voluntary Context Switches 16

Involuntary Context Switches 0

Block Input Operations 0

Block Output Operations 264

78

79 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

90

User: u62043935
Messages: 9

Re: Why isn't my output data saved in the correct location as instructed?

mkeintz — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 01:57:32 GMT

Your issue in in line 73

You have the statement

data storm_cat5;

which is equivalent to

data work.storm_cat5;

Remember, a dataset specification in a data statement can have one component (just the dataset name) or two components (the desired library and the dataset name). That is the attribute that you have to utilize in your code.

Re: Why isn't my output data saved in the correct location as instructed?

Tom — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:05:38 GMT

You already posted the answer to your question.

Read the answer you posted starting the bold face NOTE.

Re: Why isn't my output data saved in the correct location as instructed?

Nietzsche — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:47:37 GMT

sorry I missed that

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