SASEFAME Interface Engine

Syntax: SASEFAME Interface Engine

The SASEFAME interface engine uses standard engine syntax. Table 1 summarizes the options used by the SASEFAME engine.

Table 1: Summary of LIBNAME libref SASEFAME Statement Options

Option Description
AS_DB= Specifies the channel name to use for a local database; used when Fame expressions or formulas need to resolve in a Fame child process.
AS_NAME= Specifies the name to use for an explicit connection for remote access; used with the CONNECT=YES option.
CONNECT= Specifies whether or not you want to use an explicit named connection for remote access, which you name in the AS_NAME= option
CONVERT= Specifies the Fame frequency and the Fame technique
CROSSLIST= Specifies a Fame crosslist fame_namelist to perform selection based on the crossproduct of two Fame namelists
DBVERSION= Echoes the present version number of the Fame Work database in the SAS log
DEBUG= Specifies whether or not you need diagnostic message logging in the SAS log window
FAMEOUT= Specifies the Fame data object class/type that you want output to the SAS data set
INSET= Uses a SAS data set named setname and KEEP= fame_expression_group as selection input variables or WHERE= fame_bygroup as selection input for BY variables
ON_HOST= Specifies the remote Fame MCADBS server node name to connect to; used with the CONNECT=YES option.
PASS= Specifies the password for the connection, which should match the password that you use as the adduser parameter in your Fame FRDB facsq command; used with the USER= option (for remote access).
RANGE= Specifies the range of data to keep in ddmmmyyyddmmmyyyy format
TO_SERVICE= Specifies the port number that you started the MCADBS service on, which is the same port that you specified in the -p argument in the mcadbs.exe command on your MCADBS server; used with the CONNECT=YES option (for remote access).
TUNEFAME= Tunes the Fame database engine’s use of memory to reduce I/O in favor of a bigger virtual memory for caching database objects
TUNECHLI= Tunes the CHLI database engine’s use of memory to reduce I/O in favor of a bigger virtual memory for caching database objects
USER= Specifies the user name for the connection, which should match the user name you use as the adduser parameter in your Fame FRDB facsq command; used with the PASS= option (for remote access).
WILDCARD= Specifies a Fame wildcard to match data object series names within the Fame database


Last updated: June 19, 2025