EDT(Electronic data Transfer)

[yvrao]

Hi,

can anyone help me,

what is EDT (Electronic data Transfer) in SAS?

what are the SAS procedures we should use for this EDT and is there any refferences available in the online to learn EDT process,

Please help me to find the my above request.

[Reeza]

Can you add some context?

[yvrao]

Hi Reeza actually i dont know exactly what is EDT, In my company(clinical trails human blood sample testing) their will be internal opening on EDT using SAS,so i am familiar with SAS Programming That's why i want know about the EDT.

[Ksharp]

Check

PROC CPORT

PROC CIMPORT 

[Doc_Duke]

In the clinical trials arena, EDT generally refers to transmitting data without a lot of human oversight.  It can range from a nightly run program that takes the days analyses from the lab and packages it as reports to the sites to a more real time activity that monitors for incoming data, processes it, and send the results out.

One of the big differences I see is that the program(s) need to have a lot more error logic and alerts built in as there won't be as much human oversight.

[yvrao]

Thank you so much for the informatoin @Duke,

[yvrao]

Hey Duke,

can you have idea what are the SAS Programming steps, they are using for this EDT Process, that would be more helpful to me.

[Reeza]

look at PROC HTTPS and look at blog posts using API. Proc download may be of interest as well as knowing the xcommands to connect to your OS.

I would highly, highly suggest you reach out to a colleague in that area, invite them for coffee and ask these questions. Its an infinitely better approach and will get you better data.

[yvrao]

Thank you Reeza

[Doc_Duke]

Reeza's comment to talk to a colleague in the area is spot on.  The procedures and skills needed vary depending on the goal of the EDT.  It could be that you need to do a lot of ODS formatting for report generation back to your clients or that you need ODBC or Oracle connectivity to load a database.

[yvrao]

Thank you Duke