A single libname with multiple paths in SAS?

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I'm specifically doing some work in DI studio and I've come across something I don't understand.

We work on a Unix GRID platform.

There's a metadata library object that has the following notation:

library test ("/gpfs/data/location1" "/gpfs/data/location2");

I've never actually seen this notation before. Is it the datasets from each library or something?

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It's a concatenated library - the first directory ("/gpfs/data/location1") is searched before the second ("/gpfs/data/location2").

If a dataset exists in the first AND the second, then the first one is used. Similar approaches can be used for the SASAUTOs location, and filerefs..

See documentation for further info.