SAS/ACCESS 9.2 for Relational Databases: Reference, Fourth Edition

The LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases 4 LOCKTABLE= LIBNAME Option 155LOCATION= LIBNAME OptionAllows further qualification of exactly where a table resides.Alias: LOC=Default value: noneValid in: SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statementDBMS support: DB2 under z/OSSyntaxLOCATION=locationDetailsThe location name maps to the location in the SYSIBM.LOCATION catalog in thecommunication database.In SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 under z/OS, the location is converted to the firstlevel of a three-level table name: location.authid.table. The DB2 Distributed DataFacility (DDF) makes the connection implicitly to the remote DB2 subsystem when DB2receives a three-level name in an SQL statement.If you omit this option, SAS accesses the data from the local DB2 database unlessyou have specified a value for the SERVER= option. This option is not validated untilyou access a DB2 table.If you specify LOCATION=, you must also specify the AUTHID= LIBNAME option.See AlsoTo apply this option to an individual data set, see the “LOCATION= Data Set Option”on page 333.For information about accessing a database server on Linux, UNIX, or Windowsusing a libref, see the “REMOTE_DBTYPE= LIBNAME Option” on page 178.“AUTHID= LIBNAME Option” on page 96LOCKTABLE= LIBNAME OptionPlaces exclusive or shared locks on tables.Default value: no lockingValid in: SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statementDBMS support: InformixSyntaxLOCKTABLE=EXCLUSIVE | SHARE