Date:         Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:08:12 -0400
Reply-To:     Daryl <daryl.wells@FCSO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Daryl <daryl.wells@FCSO.COM>
Subject:      SAS (MVS Mainframe) extract from SAS dataset

I have the output from a SAS program that I need to read, identify fields
and place in a dataset to be read by a COBOL program.  The program that
created the SAS dataset had many APPENDS with DROPS / KEEPS.  I looked in
the file and saw that it had the field variable names prefixed by "NAME"
and then the data.  Is there a way to read the file, identify the fields
and isolate each record?