Moving and Accessing SAS Files across Operating Environments

Mounting a Tape Device on OpenVMS

In order to move a transport file from disk to tape at the source system and to move a transport file from tape to disk at the target system, issue the following DCL commands to assign the tape device before starting a SAS session:

Note: Use the INITIALIZE command only if you have a new tape. The INITIALIZE command destroys any files that already may be on the tape. [cautionend]

$ DEFINE TRANFILE tape-name
$ ALLOCATE TRANFILE
$ INITIALIZE TRANFILE DUMMY
$ MOUNT/FOREIGN/BLOCKSIZE=8000 TRANFILE

Note: TRANFILE in the DCL commands is identical to the libref that points to the location of the transport file. [cautionend]

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