Chapter 3: PROC CPORT and PROC CIMPORT

Overview of PROC CPORT and PROC CIMPORT

PROC CPORT creates files in transport format , which uses an environment-independent standard for character encoding and numeric representation. Transport files that are created by PROC CPORT can be transferred across operating environments and read with PROC CIMPORT.

The process for creating a transport file at the source machine and reading it at a target machine follows :

1. A transport file is created at the source machine using PROC CPORT.

2. The file is transferred from the source machine to the target machine.

3. The transport file is read at the target machine using PROC CIMPORT.

Note  

Transport files that are created using PROC CPORT are not interchangeable with transport files that are created using the XPORT engine.