topic Is that possible for SAS using genmax to generate generation file for external file? in SAS Programming

Is that possible for SAS using genmax to generate generation file for external file?

GeorgeSAS — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:05:14 GMT

Hello,

Is that possible to generate generation file for external file(not sas dataset)??

libname mylib "c:\temp\";
data mylib.a12321 (genmax=10);/*this works for SAS dataset*/
   x=1;
   output;
run;




filename gen_file "c:\temp\a_generation_file";/*this is external file,need generation file like sas dataset above */

data _null_;
time=time();
file gen_file(genmax=10);/*the genmax needed here,not works so far*/
put time;
format time time9.;
run;

Thanks!

Re: Is that possible for SAS using genmax to generate generation file for external file?

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:26:06 GMT

No, but you can write SAS code that determines a new name within a sequence, so you can build the generation files yourself.

Re: Is that possible for SAS using genmax to generate generation file for external file?

GeorgeSAS — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:56:04 GMT

Thank you!