SAS/SHARE User's Guide

Remote Library Services Offers Remote File Access

SAS/SHARE provides remote file access through its Remote Library Services (RLS). RLS provides transparent access to remote data libraries for moving data through the network as the local SAS session requests it.

RLS provides access to remote data through the REMOTE engine. Thus, SAS products can gain single-user or multi-user access to remote SAS data or third-party DBMS data, as applicable, by invoking a SAS/SHARE server and by assigning a library to the server through the REMOTE engine.

The LIBNAME statement associates a SAS library reference (libref) with a permanent SAS data library, which can be specified by using a host-specific full physical name. Typically, the SAS/SHARE server uses the BASE engine to access data; however, alternative engines can be assigned with the RENGINE= option, and attributes to the BASE or alternative engine can be supplied by the ROPTIONS= option. For details about the SAS/SHARE LIBNAME statement, see The LIBNAME Statement; for the SAS/CONNECT LIBNAME statement, see the SAS/CONNECT User's Guide. For information about the SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statement, see SAS/ACCESS Software for Relational Databases: Reference.

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