The following table gives a brief description and the relevant releases
for some common operating environment-specific procedures. All of
these procedures are described in more detail in operating environment-companion
documentation.
Host-Specific Procedures
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Calls any BMDP program
to analyze data in a SAS data set.
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Converts BMDP, OSIRIS,
and SPSS system files to SAS data sets.
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Converts a 16-bit SAS
library or catalog created in Release 6.08 to a transport file, which
you can then convert to a 32-bit format for use in the current release
of SAS by using the CIMPORT procedure.
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Creates, copies, modifies,
deletes, or renames device descriptions in a catalog.
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Lists, deletes, or renames
the members of a partitioned data set.
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Copies partitioned data
sets from disk to disk, disk to tape, tape to tape, or tape to disk.
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Releases unused space
at the end of a disk data set.
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Provides an easy way
to back up and process source library data sets.
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Copies an entire tape
volume, or files from one or more tape volumes, to one output tape
volume.
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Writes the label information
of an IBM standard-labeled tape volume to the SAS procedure output
file.
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