SAS Companion for the OpenVMS Operating Environment

SAS Informats under OpenVMS

A SAS informat is an instruction or template that the SAS System uses to read data values into a variable. Most SAS informats are described completely in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The informats that are described here have behavior that is specific to the SAS System under OpenVMS.

Many of the SAS informats that have details that are specific to the OpenVMS operating environment are used to read binary data. For more information, see Reading Binary Data.

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