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I suspect I missing something really obvious here, but is there a way to programatically create a new catalog?

I've had a look at PROC CATALOG but can't see anything which would create a new one.

(I did try to tag this as Catalogs/PROC Catalog, but apparently these are new tags and I can't create them)

edited Feb 15 at 2:52

jay.l.stevens♦
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asked Jan 15 at 14:22

WilliamDobson
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added the tag for you. – Moderator♦ Jan 16 at 3:10

SBloom · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-15 15:01:04Z UTC

If the CATALOG does not exists, SAS will create it.

libname temp 'c:\temp';

proc format library=temp.example;
value region
1=”NorthEast”
2=”NorthEast”
3=”Central”
4=”Central”
5=”South”
6=”South”
7=”South”
8 =”West”
9 =”West” ;
run;


proc catalog cat=temp.example;
contents;
run;

PeterC · Answer 2 · 2010-01-22 16:19:44Z UTC

I guess SCL would offer a more direct way, but here is a simple technique with

proc catalog catalog= sasuser.empty ;  
  copy in=sasuser.profile  out= sasuser.empty ;  
  select _all_ /et= none ;  
 run;  
quit;

It is very unlikely that there is an entrytype 'none'

PeterC

How do I programmatically create New Catalogs?

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