Many base procedures require an input SAS data set. You specify the input SAS data set using the DATA= option in the procedure statement, for example, proc print data=emp; If you omit the DATA= option ...
creating an input control data set from an existing SAS data set. data proclib.scale; input begin $ 1-2 end $ 5-8 amount $ 10-12; datalines; 0 3 0% 4 6 3% 7 8 6% 9 10 ...