Appendix 2: Operating Environment-Specific Procedures

Descriptions of Operating Environment-Specific Procedures

The following table gives a brief description and the relevant releases for some common operating environment-specific procedures. All of these procedures are described in more detail in operating environment-companion documentation.

Table A2.1: Host-Specific Procedures

Procedure	Description	Releases
BMDP	Calls any BMDP program to analyze data in a SAS data set.	All
CONVERT	Converts BMDP, OSIRIS, and SPSS system files to SAS data sets.	All
C16PORT	Converts a 16-bit SAS data library or catalog created in Release 6.08 to a transport file, which you can then convert to a 32-bit format for use in the current release of SAS by using the CIMPORT procedure.	6.10 - 6.12
FSDEVICE	Creates, copies, modifies, deletes, or renames device descriptions in a catalog.	All
PDS	Lists, deletes, or renames the members of a partitioned data set.	6.09E
PDSCOPY	Copies partitioned data sets from disk to disk, disk to tape, tape to tape, or tape to disk.	6.09E
RELEASE	Releases unused space at the end of a disk data set.	6.09E
SOURCE	Provides an easy way to back up and process source library data sets.	6.09E
TAPECOPY	Copies an entire tape volume, or files from one or more tape volumes , to one output tape volume.	6.09E
TAPELABEL	Writes the label information of an IBM standard-labeled tape volume to the SAS procedure output file.	6.09E