SAS/SHARE User's Guide

The ALLOCATE SASFILE Command in a PROC SERVER Statement

The PROC SERVER statement ALLOCATE SASFILE command specifies that one or more SAS data sets can be opened for the duration of a server session until you terminate the server. Keeping SAS data sets open until a server terminates can enhance server performance by reducing overhead from users opening and closing data sets during the server's processing. In each ALLOCATE SASFILE command, you can specify up to 20 SAS data set names with accompanying data set options. Syntax for the ALLOCATE SASFILE command follows:

PROC SERVER <options>;

ALLOCATE SASFILE SAS-data-set1 (data-set-options)
<SAS-data-set2 (data-set-options) ...
SAS-data-set20 (data-set-options)>;

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