Moving and Accessing SAS Files across Operating Environments

Uploading and Downloading SAS Files

You can use the data transfer services provided by SAS/CONNECT to move a copy of data between hosts. You can position data and applications to best use the CPU and disk resources on your network. SAS/CONNECT provides two procedures to support data transfer services:

PROC UPLOAD: sends one or more files from a local host to a remote host.
PROC DOWNLOAD: sends one or more files from a remote host to a local host.

PROC UPLOAD and PROC DOWNLOAD enable you to transfer an entire library, selected members of a library (by using SELECT or EXCLUDE statements), or selected data sets with WHERE processing and SAS data set options. Furthermore, you can move SAS files across SAS releases as well as across hosts; for example, from OS/390 Release 6.09 to Windows Version 8. For complete details about SAS/CONNECT, see SAS/CONNECT User's Guide.

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