T-X

target operating environment

the operating environment to which you move a SAS file.

transferring SAS files

the process of delivering SAS files from a source operating environment to a target operating environment, either by means of a magnetic medium or across a network.

See also copying SAS files.

translation table

an operating environment-specific SAS catalog entry that is used to translate the value of one character to another. Translation tables often are needed to support the use of multiple national languages in an application. An example of a translation table is one that converts characters from EBCDIC to ASCII-ISO.

transport engine

a facility that transforms a SAS file from its operating environment-specific internal representation to transport format.

See also transport format.

See also transport file.

See also transporting SAS files.

transport file

a sequential file that contains a SAS data library, a SAS catalog, or a SAS data set in transport format. You can use transport files to move SAS data libraries, SAS catalogs, and SAS data sets from one operating environment to another.

See also transporting SAS files.

transport format

either of two file formats that are used to move SAS data sets, SAS data libraries, and SAS catalogs from one operating environment to another. One transport format is produced when the COPY procedure is used with the XPORT engine. The other transport format is produced by the CPORT and CIMPORT procedures. Each of these transport formats is the same in all operating environments.

See also transporting SAS files.

See also transport file.

See also transport engine.

transporting SAS files

the process of putting SAS files into transport format and moving them between incompatible operating environments. The transport process creates a transport file in the source operating environment, transfers the transport file to the target operating environment, and restores the transport file to the native format in the target operating environment. If the source and target operating environments run different versions of SAS, the transport process implicitly converts the file only from an earlier version of SAS to a later version.

See also architectural compatibility.

See also transport file.

See also transport format.

See also converting SAS files.

See also transferring SAS files.

universal header

a line attached to the beginning of a SAS file that was created with CEDA. The header contains architectural attributes such as number size , number alignment, data representation, and character encoding. By accessing the universal header, the remote operating environment can determine whether the file's format is native or foreign to that of the accessing operating environment. If the file's format is native, then the operating environment can read, write, and update the file. If the file's format is foreign, then the operating environment can only read the file.

See also architectural compatibility.

See also CEDA (Cross-Environment Data Access).

See also foreign file format.

See also native file format.

V6 engine

the default engine for SAS Version 6. This engine accesses SAS files in Version 6 SAS data libraries.

V7 engine

the default engine for SAS Version 7. This engine accesses SAS files in Version 7 SAS data libraries. The SAS 9, SAS Version 8, and SAS Version 7 file formats are identical.

V8 engine

the default engine for SAS Version 8. This engine accesses SAS files in Version 8 SAS data libraries. The SAS 9, SAS Version 8, and SAS Version 7 file formats are identical.

V9 engine

the default engine for SAS 9. This engine accesses SAS files in SAS 9 data libraries. The SAS 9, SAS Version 8, and SAS Version 7 file formats are identical.

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

a markup language that enables you to define tags that identify the types of data and information in XML documents.

XML engine

See XML LIBNAME engine.

XML LIBNAME engine

the SAS engine that processes XML documents. The engine exports an XML document from a SAS data set by translating the proprietary SAS file format to XML markup. The engine also imports an external XML document by translating XML markup to a SAS data set.

XPORT engine

the SAS transport engine. This engine accesses SAS files in transport format. An alternate name for this engine is SASV5XPT.