GLUE

GLUE

Combines the partitions of partitioned data sets

Syntax
Details

Syntax

glue oldname newname dir-path1<...dir-pathn>

oldname: is the name of the partitioned data set that was created with Version 6.
newname: is the name that you want assigned to the new data set that will contain the data from all of the partitions of oldname. You do not need to specify a filename extension.
dir-path1...dir-pathn: are the directory pathnames that contain the partitions of oldname. You can enter from 0 to 20 directory names. Separate each pathname with a space. This list of pathnames should be all of the pathnames that were specified in the original LIBNAME statement that created the partitioned data set, unless some of the partitions have been moved.

Details

The glue utility reads each partition of a data set and writes all partitions out to a standard Version 6 data set that can then be read by Version 7 or Version 8. SAS appends the filename extension of the original oldname to newname. For example, the following command reads the partitions of mydataset.ssd01 from directories /dir1, /tmp/part2, and /part3, and creates a large data set named newdataset.ssd01.

glue mydataset.ssd01 newdataset /dir1 /tmp/part2 /part3

If glue cannot find a partition in any of the specified paths, it displays an error message and asks you to enter a new pathname. You can choose to abort the utility if necessary.

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