SAS/CONNECT User's Guide

Introduction

The cross-environment data access (CEDA) facility allows you to transfer Version 7 or Version 8 SAS files between two heterogeneous hosts more efficiently than other SAS file transfer techniques. CEDA takes advantage of the Version 7 or Version 8 file structure to minimize data conversion between the host's native formats and eliminates steps required by other transfer techniques.

SAS recognizes that diverse and distributed computers have become more common than they were when Version 6 was introduced. It is no longer unusual to have a site where multiple CPU's share access to a single disk or to a single networked file system. CEDA is the facility that allows any Version 7 or Version 8 SAS data file created on any directory based host (for example, Solaris, Windows, HP-UX, OpenVMS) to be read by SAS running on any other directory-based platform. Using CEDA, SAS data files (managed by the base engine) will be accessible across platforms.

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