seting up a reduced test enviroment for SAS

[Ergin]

Hi everyone is it possible to just copy a 1/3 of a filesystem /sasdata used by SAS to make a test enviroment. It runs on a HP-UX 11.31 system i need it cause lack of storage. For example it can be a solution to copy the last 1 year data that added to a table .

[TTr]

This needs to be done from within SAS and it depends on how many different files you have in /sasdata and how many different data types you have in the (each) file.
Obviously if there is a single file in /sasdata you can not split it from UNIX, you need to use sas code to read it and write out a smaller set of the data.

If it is multiple files you still need to determine if they contain one data structure or multiple ones. With one data structure, you simple take one file only but if they contain different data types you would again need to read each file with sas code and write out a small subset of the data from each file.

It is best if you involve your sas prorammers in doing this. This is more of a sas analyst question rather than a unix admin question.

[Ergin]

Thanks for your response, i prefered to this job on sas side but our sas-team some lazy. Now i am starting to googling sas-programing i hope i would do this job.
It will be appreciated if someone would advise me a way to do this.