Many of us create and store files on remote servers. One way of viewing the files you create is to use Proc Download to export them to your local libraries, but downloading large files can be time-consuming. Fortunately, there is an easier way.

First, I connect to the server and rsubmit my libname statement with the path to its location on the server; then I submit a second libname statement locally using the same libref. After submitting the following code, I can open Explorer, navigate to Libraries, and the library I specified on the remote server is now available for me to browse.

rsubmit;
libname WHP “/projects/hedis/hedis/whp”;
endrsubmit;
/*submit locally*/
libname WHP server=remoteservername; /*view remote server files on local machine*/