CAS Session Options Listed by Category

Action

Name	Syntax and Description
APPTAG= Session Option	APPTAG="tag-string" specifies the string to prefix to log messages. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Action History

Name	Syntax and Description
HISTORYLINELENGTH= Session Option	HISTORYLINELENGTH=number specifies the number of bytes to use for reporting action names and action parameters in a line of history. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Authentication

Name	Syntax and Description
AZURETENANTID Session Option	AZURETENANTID="tenant-id" specifies the tenant ID for connecting to a Microsoft Azure storage system in a session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Caslib

C M

Name	Syntax and Description
CASLIB= Session Option	CASLIB="caslib-reference-name" specifies the caslib name to set as the active caslib. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
MAXTABLEMEM= Session Option	MAXTABLEMEM=integer | "integer<units>" specifies the maximum amount of memory, in bytes, to allocate for a table. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

DATA step

Name	Syntax and Description
DATASTEPFMTERR= Session Option	DATASTEPFMTERR=TRUE | FALSE specifies how SAS reacts when a specified variable format cannot be found. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPMERGENOBY Session Option	DATASTEPMERGENOBY='ERROR' | 'NOWARN' | 'WARN' specifies whether a warning is generated, an error is generated, or no warning is generated when a DATA-step merge is executed without a BY statement. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPMSGSUMLEVEL= Session Option	DATASTEPMSGSUMLEVEL=ALL | PUT | NONE specifies the DATA step message summary level. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DATASTEPREPLACETABLE= Session Option	DATASTEPREPLACETABLE=TRUE | FALSE specifies whether a DATA step can replace an existing table. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Data Processing

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Name	Syntax and Description
EVENTDS= Session Option	EVENTDS="event-data-set(s)" specifies one or more data sets that define events. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
INTERVALDS= Session Option	INTERVALDS="interval-1=libref.dataset-name-1 <interval-2=libref.dataset-name-2 ...>" specifies one or more interval-name=value pairs, where the value is the name of a data set that contains user-defined intervals. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Data Quality

Name	Syntax and Description
DQLOCALE= Session Option	DQLOCALE="5-letter-locale-code" specifies the default 5-letter SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) ISO locale code to use as the default locale for data quality (DQ) operations. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DQQKBREPOLOC Session Option	DQQKBREPOLOC="caslib-name" specifies the name of the caslib where SAS Quality Knowledge Bases are stored. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
DQSETUPLOC= Session Option	DQSETUPLOC="QKB-name" specifies the name of the default SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) to use for data quality operations. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Date and Time

T Y

Name	Syntax and Description
TIMEZONE= Session Option	TIMEZONE='time-zone-name' | 'time-zone-ID' specifies the user local time zone. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
YEARCUTOFF= Session Option	YEARCUTOFF=number specifies the first year of a 100-year span that is used by date informats and functions to read a 2-digit year. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Debugging

Name	Syntax and Description
DEBUGOPT= Session Option	DEBUGOPT="DEBUGHOST=host-name DEBUGPORT=port" specifies the host and port for the SAS Code Debugger in a session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Files: SAS Files

Name	Syntax and Description
CMPLIB= Session Option	CMPLIB="caslib-name.cas-table-name <caslib-name.cas-table-name <...>>" CMPLIB='{ {CASLIB= "caslib-name", NAME= "cas-table-name"} <..., {CASLIB= "caslib-name", NAME= "cas-table-name"}>}’ specifies one or more CMP libraries that contain compiler subroutines to include during program compilation. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Formats

Name	Syntax and Description
DATESTYLE= Session Option	DATESTYLE=MDY | YMD | DMY | LOCALE specifies the sequence of month, day, and year when ANYDTDTE, ANYDTDTM, or ANYDTTME informat data is ambiguous. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Input Control

E I

Name	Syntax and Description
EVENTDS= Session Option	EVENTDS="event-data-set(s)" specifies one or more data sets that define events. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
INTERVALDS= Session Option	INTERVALDS="interval-1=libref.dataset-name-1 <interval-2=libref.dataset-name-2 ...>" specifies one or more interval-name=value pairs, where the value is the name of a data set that contains user-defined intervals. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Localization

Name	Syntax and Description
LOCALE= Session Option	LOCALE="locale" specifies the locale to use for sorting and formatting. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Log

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Name	Syntax and Description
LOGFLUSHTIME= Session Option	LOGFLUSHTIME=–1 | 0 | number specifies the log flush time, in milliseconds. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
MESSAGELEVEL= Session Option	MESSAGELEVEL=ALL | DEFAULT | ERROR | NONE | NOTE | WARNING specifies the log message level. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
METRICS= Session Option	METRICS=TRUE | FALSE specifies whether to include default detailed performance metrics reports in the SAS log. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Session

N S T U

Name	Syntax and Description
NWORKERS= Session Option	NWORKERS=number specifies the number of worker nodes for a new session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
SUBSETSESSIONCOPIES= Session Option	SUBSETSESSIONCOPIES=number specifies the number of backup copies to create of subset session in-memory table blocks for failover. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
TIMEOUT= Session Option	TIMEOUT=number specifies the SAS Cloud Analytic Services session time-out in seconds for a new or existing session. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide
USEGPU= Session Option	USEGPU=ALWAYS | NEVER | OPTIMAL specifies whether work is offloaded to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), if it is available. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

Sort

Name	Syntax and Description
COLLATE= Session Option	COLLATE=MVA | UCA specifies the collating sequence for sorting. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide

System Administration: Performance

Name	Syntax and Description
CMPOPT= Session Option	CMPOPT="optimization-value <optimization-value <...>>" | ALL | NONE specifies the type of code generation optimizations to use in the SAS language compiler. Product: SAS Cloud Analytic Services Document: SAS Cloud Analytic Services: User’s Guide