topic data sets in work-order in SAS Programming

data sets in work-order

Ronein — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:32:48 GMT

Hello

Is it possible that data sets in work libarary be listed in order that they were created?

I look at work libarary nd I see the data sets there but the order they appear is alphabetic and not by time they were created

Re: data sets in work-order

Tom — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:51:52 GMT

What do you mean by "look"? Did you open some viewer? Which one? What interface are you using to run SAS? Display Manager? Enterprise Guide? SAS/Studio?

You can always make a report instead.

data z;
run;
data m;
run;
data a;
run;

proc sql;
select memname, modate format=datetime19.
  from dictionary.tables
  where libname='WORK' 
  order by modate 
;
quit;

Re: data sets in work-order

andreas_lds — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:30:27 GMT

SAS Studio, Enterprise Guide, Display Manager and even the sas-addon for VS Code display library contents always in alphabetical order. But if you should have access to your work-folder with Windows Explorer, too, so that you use it to display datasets in the required order.