Date:         Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:17:40 -0500
Reply-To:     "Dunn, Toby" <Toby.Dunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
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From:         "Dunn, Toby" <Toby.Dunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
Subject:      Re: Integration-Communicating with PC SAS and Mainframe
Comments: To: Jeomoan Kurian <jeomoan@GMAIL.COM>
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My general way doing this is simply to create a SAS dataset and then
rsubmit it up to the mainframe, where my code to rsubmit creates the
library on the mainframe and then I put the sas data set I created in PC
SAS as a member in that library.  That way it is all in one program I
run from my PC.

HTH
Toby Dunn

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From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Jeomoan Kurian
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 1:09 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Integration-Communicating with PC SAS and Mainframe

SAS-L,
I am to automate an FTP process between Windows and Mainframe(MVS, I
use ISPF) . This also involves  creation of a dataset in Mainframe.

Outcome of my PC Based  data extraction and cleaning is a text file
that i will have to export into a mainframe datafile for further
processing. The present process, i generate the text file in PC SAS,
Create a new dataset(generation dataset) in Mainframe and using the
Mainfram interface utility i FTP the text file to maniframe file. I
read about SAS capabilities to automate such processes but did not get
any  help specific to this.  I have done ftp but stuck at Allocating a
dataset.

Please let me know your thoughts
thanks,
jeomoan kurain