SAS Companion for the OS/390 Environment

Specifying Physical Files

a fully qualified data set name such as 'SAS.SAS8.AUTOEXEC' or 'MY.PDS(MEMBER)'
a partially qualified data set name such as '.CNTL'. SAS inserts the value of the SYSPREF= system option (which is usually userid by default) in front of the period. (See SYSPREF=.) In the following example, an OPTIONS statement is used to assign a value of USER12.SAS8 to the SYSPREF= system option. When SAS executes the FILENAME statement, it interprets '.RAW.DATAX' as 'USER12.SAS8.RAW.DATAX'.
```
options syspref=user12.sas8;
filename raw2 '.raw.datax' disp=old;
```
a temporary data set name such as '&MYTEMP'.
Note that names of physical files should be enclosed in quotes.
a concatenated series of names or a wildcard name consisting of multiple UNIX System Services files or members of a partitioned data set (PDS, PDSE). See Concatenating External Files.

Here are examples of the INCLUDE command that illustrate the various ways you can specify physical files:

INCLUDE MYPGM: MYPGM is a fileref that was previously associated with the external file.
INCLUDE MYPGM(PGM1): PGM1 is a member of the partitioned data set that is associated with the fileref MYPGM.
INCLUDE 'USERID.TEST.PGMS': sequential data set name.
INCLUDE 'USERID.TEST.PGMS(AAA)': data set name with member specified.
INCLUDE '.TEST.MYPGM': Assuming that the FILESYSTEM= system option is set to MVS, SAS prepends this data set name with the value of the SAS system option SYSPREF=, which defaults to the your system prefix. If FILESYSTEM=HFS, SAS looks into your default UNIX System Services directory for the "hidden" file .TEST.MYPGM.
INCLUDE 'HFS:/u/userid/mypgms/mypgm1.c': name of a UNIX System Services file in the hierarchical file system, represented by a partially qualified path. SAS searches for the file in the default HFS directory for that user. If the FILESYSTEM= system option was set to HFS and if MYPGM was a standard OS/390 data set, the alternate syntax of MVS: would be required above (see FILESYSTEM=).
INCLUDE 'pgms/mypgms/mypgm1.c': This is another example of a relative path to a UNIX System Services file. Any file name containing a slash (/) is assumed to be in UNIX System Services, regardless of the value of the FILESYSTEM= system option.

Handling of Nonstandard Member Names