The suffixes shown are prefixed by the current WriterKeyword in a mapping file. By default, the WriterKeyword for the SAS reader is SAS.
DATASET
Required/Optional: Required
This is the name of a folder that will contain the output SAS files. The default extension for output SAS files is .sas7bdat.
Mapping File Syntax
SAS_DATASET /usr/data/sas/output
DST_ENCODING
This specifies the file encoding to use when writing.
Required/Optional
Optional
Values
<encoding>
Workbench Parameter
Character Encoding
|
Encodings |
|
big5 |
| cp936 |
| cp950 |
| ibm866 |
| cp932 |
| shift_jis |
| iso-8859-1 |
| iso-8859-2 |
| iso-8859-3 |
| iso-8859-4 |
| iso-8859-15 |
| iso-8859-6 |
| iso-8859-5 |
| iso-8859-7 |
| iso-8859-8 |
| iso-8859-9 |
| utf-8 |
| utf-16 |
| utf-16be |
| utf-16le |
| utf-32 |
| utf-32be |
| utf-32le |
| windows-1256 |
| windows-1257 |
| windows-1251 |
| windows-1253 |
| windows-1255 |
| windows-1252 |
| windows-1250 |
| windows-1254 |
| windows-1258 |
| iso-8859-13 |
PLATFORM
This specifies the platform for which to write the dataset.
Required/Optional
Required
Values
Native (current platform) (default) | Win32 | Win64 | Sun (or HP or AIX) | Sun64 (or 64-bit HP/AIX) | Alpha/Linux | OS/2 (Intel) | AOSF64 (Compaq True 64 Unix) | AVMS (Open VMS Alpha 32-bit) | AVMS64 (Open VMS Alpha 64-bit)
VERSION
Required/Optional: Required
This specifies the SAS version in which to write the dataset.
Values
Version 6 (*.sd) | Version 6 (*.sd2) | Version 6 (*.ssd) | Version 7/8 (*.sas7) | Version 7/8 (*.sas7bdat) | Version 9 (*.sas7bdat) | Program + ASCII data file (*.SAS) | Transport (*.xpt) | Transport (*.tpt) | Transport (*.stx)
Default
Version 7/8 (*.sas7bdat)