Can I read and write SAS Datasets directly to a remote FTP site?

[deleted_user]

Or is there a FTP library engine?

[darrylovia]

Amber
use the FILENAME statement with the FTP option. For example from the online documentation. http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp

filename anon ftp '' ls host='130.96.6.1'
user='anonymous';

data _null_;
infile anon;
input;
list;
run;


-Darryl

[deleted_user]

Thanks for your reply, from the sample 8 and sample on http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/getDoc/en/lrdict.hlp/a000178980.htm I know we can transport a local library to a FTP site, and we can create transport library directly on a FTP site, but they are Transport Libraries, so they have limitations. Is there a way to write ordinary data sets directly to FTP sites, that is to treat datasets as external files, not through the XPORT engine.

[darrylovia]

Could have SAS use the operating system to copy your SAS file in binary mode up to the ftp site?