The SASEFAME Interface Engine

Syntax: SASEFAME Interface Engine

The SASEFAME interface engine uses standard engine syntax. Table 48.1 summarizes the options used by the SASEFAME engine.

Table 48.1: 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 ddmmmyyy – ddmmmyyyy 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: August 25, 2017