topic Re: Retrieve the libname statement (in user-written code) from a libref or libname in DI Studio in SAS Programming

Retrieve the libname statement (in user-written code) from a libref or libname in DI Studio

Anne_A — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:17:33 GMT

Dear all,

I am requested to write some (one shot) user-written code in DI Studio to investigate a data quality issue. The customer has provided me with a .csv file which contains (among other things) the engine, libname, libref, directory (path), tablename and column name of the fields to be analyzed. When the engine is BASE I can easily recreate the libname statement programmatically from the information above, but when the engine is not BASE (Oracle, DB2, ODBC, ...) that does not work. Hence I'm wondering (and asking you) whether there is any way to programmatically retrieve the libname statement (metadata) corresponding to the libname, i.e. the libname statement I get when I right-click the library in the DI Studio environment.

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers

Anne.

Re: Retrieve the libname statement (in user-written code) from a libref or libname in DI Studio

sbxkoenk — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:22:58 GMT

Hello Anne,

Does this help??

Library - Extract metadata
https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Library-Extract-metadata/td-p/676885

Cheers,

Koen

Re: Retrieve the libname statement (in user-written code) from a libref or libname in DI Studio

Anne_A — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:16:15 GMT

Thank you Koen,

Exactly what I needed 😊!

Cheers

Anne.