You can use the SAS Data Set Connection dialog to connect to a folder that contains one or more SAS data sets. The data is accessed directly on disk without mediation by a SAS Application Server. For a list of the versions of SAS data that can be accessed, see the row for SAS in Supported Databases for Data Storage.
Need to connect to databases in SAS Viya? SAS’ David Ghan shows you two methods – via SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME and SAS Data Connector SASLIBS – in this video.