User`s guide

9030971 E17 Introduction to Data Export
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Special Considerations
For SAS Users Only
For SAS Users Only
Before using Data Export, SAS users should consider the items in the
following sections.
SAS Packaged Reports
During installation, Data Export installs several SAS packaged reports in the
directory, sas_reports, under the ...Spectrum/SG-Tools directory. Each
report file includes comments about the local changes that may be required.
Follow these general rules when you use SAS packaged reports:
• Set the environment variable, CTRON, to the location of the SAS data sets.
• If you are executing reports from a directory other than the one in which
they reside, you must also either copy the macros, get_ts.sas and
exist.sas, to your sasautos directory, or add the following entry to
your config.sas file:
-sasautos <sas reports path>
• The reports assume that you are using the default landscape handle,
0x400000. If your landscape handle is different, you must change the
variable, inlh, in the reports file to the decimal equivalent of your
landscape handle.
• The reports also assume that SAS data sets will have default names. If
your data set names are not the same as the default, change the reports
programs accordingly.
Error Handling
Under some circumstances (an attempt to append statistical export data to an
existing, but corrupt, SAS data set for example) an error message may
indicate that a particular export operation was unsuccessful (i.e., unsuccessful
updating of the impoinfo file), when, in fact, the preceding export operation
first encountered the problem.
Therefore, if errors are encountered during an export, the integrity of all
output files should be checked. See Chapter 3 for information on how to
append information to an output data set. See Chapter 5 for specific
troubleshooting solutions.