• You can implicitly specify the CVP engine with the LIBNAME statement options
CVPBYTES= or CVPMULTIPLIER=. The options specify the expansion amount. In
addition, you can use the CVPENGINE= option to specify the primary engine to use
for processing the SAS file; the default is the default Base SAS engine.
For more information about using the CVP engine to avoid character data truncation and
for details about the CVP engine options in the LIBNAME statement, see SAS National
Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide.
SAS Information Maps LIBNAME Engine
The new SAS Information Maps LIBNAME engine provides a read-only way to access
data generated from a SAS Information Map and to bring it into a SAS session. Once
you retrieve the data, you can run almost any SAS procedure against it.
To use the Information Maps engine, specify INFOMAPS as the engine name, along
with specific arguments and options in the LIBNAME statement.
For information about how to use the Information Maps engine, see Base SAS Guide to
Information Maps.
SAS JMP LIBNAME Engine
The SAS JMP LIBNAME engine enables you to read and write JMP files in a Base SAS
session. A JMP file is a file format that the JMP software program creates. JMP is an
interactive statistics package that is available for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. For
more information about a JMP concept or term, see the JMP documentation that is
packaged with your system.
To use the JMP engine, specify JMP as the engine name, along with the location of a
SAS library in the LIBNAME statement. For example, the following code reads and
prints five observations from the JMP file Baseball.jmp:
libname b jmp 'C:JMPSampleData';
proc print data=b.baseball (obs=5);
run;
For information about how to use the JMP engine, see “LIBNAME Statement for the
JMP Engine” in SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference.
SAS Metadata LIBNAME Engine
The metadata engine accesses metadata that is stored on the SAS Metadata Server within
a specific SAS Metadata Repository. The metadata is information about the structure and
content of data, and about the applications that process and manipulate that data. The
metadata contains details such as the location of the data and the SAS engine that is used
to process the data.
The metadata engine works in a similar way to other SAS engines. That is, you execute a
LIBNAME statement to assign a libref and specify an engine. You then use that libref
throughout the SAS session where a libref is valid. However, instead of the libref being
associated with the physical location of a SAS library, the metadata libref is associated
with specific metadata objects that are stored in a specific repository on the metadata
server. The metadata objects define the SAS engine and options that are necessary to
process a SAS library and its members.
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