In a message dated 4/17/2007 8:42:07 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >In Version 8 of the SAS System, extended sequential data set format cannot be read or written using EXCP (Execute Channel Program) processing on disk. As a result, SAS data libraries in that format are not supported. This is not a SAS issue. IBM has made a deliberate design and decision not to provide EXCP support for extended sequential data sets on disk. >Since SAS uses EXCP to process direct access bound libraries Since no poster has quoted a SAS reference saying something like "future objective" or "will be address in the next release of SAS", it seems that SAS has also made a deliberate decision not to change their method of processing DASD libraries. There are other access methods that could be used besides EXCP. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL
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