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Aaraeus
Aaraeus

Reputation: 1155

A single libname with multiple paths in SAS?

I'm specifically doing some work in DI studio and I've come across something I don't understand.

We work on a Unix GRID platform.

There's a metadata library object that has the following notation:

library test ("/gpfs/data/location1" "/gpfs/data/location2");

I've never actually seen this notation before. Is it the datasets from each library or something?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1584

Answers (1)

Allan Bowe
Allan Bowe

Reputation: 12691

It's a concatenated library - the first directory ("/gpfs/data/location1") is searched before the second ("/gpfs/data/location2").

If a dataset exists in the first AND the second, then the first one is used. Similar approaches can be used for the SASAUTOs location, and filerefs..

See documentation for further info.

Upvotes: 3

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