SAS Component Language: Reference

Introduction

SCL provides many of the same features as the base SAS language. However, some SCL features differ slightly in functionality from base SAS language features. Also, although SCL provides a rich set of features, it does not provide functions and statements to accomplish directly all of the data access, management, presentation, and analysis tasks that SAS software can perform, nor can it provide the equivalent for every command that is available under your host operating system. However, SCL does provide the following features:

the SUBMIT statement, which provides access to other features of SAS software by generating SAS statements and then submitting them to SAS software for processing.
the SYSTEM function, which provides access to host operating systems by issuing host operating system commands.

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