The VIEWTABLE window enables you to browse, edit, or create data sets. This window provides two viewing modes:
Table View | uses a tabular format to display multiple observations in the data set. |
Form View | displays data one observation at a time in a form layout. |
You can customize your view of a data set, for example, by sorting your data, changing the color and fonts of columns , displaying variable labels instead of variable names , or removing or adding variables . You can also load an existing DATAFORM catalog entry in order to apply a previously-defined variable, data set, and viewer attributes.
To view a data set, select the following:
This brings up VIEWTABLE or FSVIEW (z/OS). You can also double-click on the data set in the Explorer window.
SAS files supported within the VIEWTABLE window are:
SAS data files
SAS data views
MDDB files.
For more information, see the SAS System Help for VIEWTABLE in Base SAS.