Getting "file does not exists" error in SAS Studio 5.1 using shpimprt

[VAinTestMode]

I'm getting an error trying to use the shpimprt command to load in a .SHP file.

I've uploaded the file I want to import into my SAS Content folder (see attached image).

I right-clicked on the file and selected "Insert as path" to ensure i was using the correct file path.

when I run my command to load the file, I see the following "file does not exist" error in the logs:

83 %shpimprt(shapefilepath=/Users/sasdemo/tl_2018_04_sldu.shp, id="GEOID", outtable=geotest, cashost=localhost,

84 casport=5570, caslib='casuser');

NOTE: PROCEDURE MAPIMPORT used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

cpu time 0.01 seconds

WARNING: Physical file does not exist, /Users/sasdemo/tl_2018_04_sldu.shp.

ERROR: Unable to open DATAFILE.

[CaseySmith]

It's a little confusing, but the SAS Content tree and the server file system are two separate file stores (logical and physical, respectively).  You uploaded the .shp file to the SAS Content location, but the code is referencing (looking for, but can't find) a file path on the server file system.

So, you have two options...

1) You can access a file from a SAS Content folder directly by using a FILESRVC fileref.  For example:

filename myfile FILESRVC folderpath="/Users/sasdemo" filename="tl_2018_04_sldu.shp";

%shpimprt(shapefilepath=myfile

Note: This requires that your SAS code is capable of accepting a fileref rather than only a file path string.  Since macro parameters are just strings, I doubt the shpimprt macro will accept a fileref for the sharefilepath parameter, so probably not an option for you in this example.

2) You can FTP the file to your server file system (or a location it can access) and then reference that file in your SAS code.

Note: In SAS Studio 5.1, only the SAS Content tree is surfaced in the UI.  The server file system is not accessible from the SAS Studio 5.1 UI.  In SAS Studio 5.2, the SAS Content tree and the server file system will be accessible.  Thus, you'll be able to upload directly to either.

Casey

[andreas_lds]

Just an idea: is the pathname function able to return full filename to be passed to the macro?

[CaseySmith]

I was curious, so gave it a shot, but as you'll see from this log snippet, it only returns the filename:

76    filename myfile FILESRVC folderpath="/Users/cassmi" filename="yo.txt";
77    %put %sysfunc(pathname(myfile));
yo.txt

Also, there isn't really a way this (getting a path that references a file from SAS Content, but can be used in a server file system context) could work, since there is no full path to this file (in server file system context). The file doesn't exist on the server file system.  It only exists in the SAS Content location.

Casey