SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

Statements under z/OS FILENAME Statement 371
SOCKET
reads and writes information over a TCP/IP socket. The external file depends on
whether the SAS application is a server application or a client application. In a
client application, the external file is the name or IP address of the host and the
TCP/IP port number to connect to followed by any TCP/IP options. In server
applications, it is the port number to create for listening, followed by the SERVER
keyword, and then any TCP/IP options. See SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
for more information.
Note: The maximum number of directory or PDS members that you can have
open at the same time is limited by the number of sockets that your FTP server
can have open at one time. This limitation is restricted by the maximum number
of connections created when the FTP server is installed.
You might want to limit the number of sockets you have open at the same time
to prevent potential degradation of your system’s performance. The number of
sockets that are open at the same time is proportional to the number of directory
or PDS members open at the same time. When the job you are running opens the
maximum number of sockets that can be open at the same time, the results of the
job can become unpredictable. R
TAPE
sends the output to a tape drive.
TEMP
allocates a temporary data set.
TERMINAL
sends the output to your terminal.
UPRINTER
associates the fileref with the Universal Printing device. Any output generated to
a fileref that is defined for this device type is formatted and sent to the default
device that has been set up interactively through the Printer Setup dialog. By
default on z/OS, output is sent to a data set called .sasprt.ps, where
is the value of the SYSPREF= system option. For more information about
Universal Printing, see the SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.
URL
allows you to access remote files using the URL of the file. The external file is the
name of the file that you want to read from or write to on a URL server. The URL
must be in one of the following forms:
http://hostname/file
http://hostname:portno/file
Refer to SAS Language Reference: Dictionary for more information.
You can specify device-type between the fileref and the file specification in the
FILENAME statement. If you do not specify a device type value for a new file, SAS
uses the current value of the SAS system option FILEDEV=.
’physical-filename’ or(’physical-filename-1’... ’physical-filename-n’)
identifies an external file or a concatenation of external files. Enclose
physical-filename in quotation marks. In a concatenation, enclose the entire group of
concatenated file specifications in parentheses.
The physical file can be a sequential data set, a member of a partitioned data set
(PDS), a member of an extended partitioned data set (PDSE), or a file in UNIX
System Services. ‘physical-filename’ can be specified as
3 a fully qualified data set name. For example:
’myid.raw.datax’