What s New

Overview

The following strategies in Base SAS are available for moving and accessing SAS files between operating environments that run different releases of SAS:

• Cross-Environment Data Access (CEDA)

• CPORT and CIMPORT procedures

• XPORT engine with the DATA step or the COPY procedure

• XML engine with the DATA step or the COPY procedure.

Note  

This section describes the features that are new to the topic of moving SAS files since SAS 8.2. Using SAS CONNECT and SAS/SHARE to move or access SAS files are discussed in the SAS/CONNECT User's Guide and the SAS/SHARE User's Guide .