Do people have to use a new SAS procedure to share their data?
No. The users who add and maintain data continue to use the SAS procedures and windows that they already know: FSEDIT, PROC APPEND, FSVIEW, and so forth. Instead of requiring users to change the SAS tools they know and use, SAS/SHARE software takes advantage of the SAS Multiple Engine Architecture (MEA) to allow those SAS tools to access data through a “traffic cop” that’s formally known as a SAS server. A SAS server allows many users to read and update the data in one or more SAS files, all at the same time by keeping track of locks on observations, catalog entries, and SAS files.
