topic Re: Create a catalog table in SAS Programming

Create a catalog table

YannRC — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:41:57 GMT

Hi the community, I find this view very helful in information catalog. I would like to have a table. What is the script to do this. My librairie is 'OA'

Re: Create a catalog table

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:32:34 GMT

Try this:

data want;
set sashelp.vtable;
where libname = "OA";
run;

Re: Create a catalog table

YannRC — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:43:40 GMT

Yeah !! perfect. Is it normal that the files ize is always 0. It's interesting to know the size in MO or Go. Thanks a lot

Re: Create a catalog table

Quentin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:07:24 GMT

If the library has SAS datasets in it, you should see the size. But it looks like the library points to CAS tables? It's possible the sashelp catalog won't know the size of the table. That often happens with libraries that point to relational databases as well. If you need to get the size of a CAS table, you might want to look at CAS-specific methods, see e.g. this thread: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Viya/How-to-get-the-size-of-a-table-in-CAS/td-p/760880 .

Re: Create a catalog table

YannRC — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:27:12 GMT

Thanks a lot, can you confirm please. The description label is equal to memlabel in the sashelp.vtable